1. Important Installation Information

  Note:  

MCU Power Good LED Notification

The Aurix MCU controls the board power-up sequence on the DRIVE AGX platform. An error was found in some power devices for 5V rails on the DRIVE AGX board such that they may not provide proper voltage output if enabled when voltage is in a certain range. To work around this, the Aurix MCU FW in the release implements a feature to monitor these voltage rails and not power up these rails until the existing voltage is in the proper range. However this will increase the time required for the board to boot or for the board or Xavier devices to Reset (i.e., aurixreset or tegrareset commands) to ~14 sec in the average case. In addition, if voltage rails never fall to a valid level after 30 seconds, then the rails will be powered up and the board will boot, but board functions may be affected.

Because of this, the Aurix MCU indicates the board status using one LED located next to the debug USB port. For healthy boot with no error, the LED will blink once every four seconds (i.e., Power Good indication); for error timeout, the LED will blink three times rapidly every four seconds (i.e., Power Bad indication). More information on this is given in the Development Guide section "MCU LED Notification."

In order to verify that networking is properly configured for the DRIVE AGX Developer System, please review the DRIVE AGX board setup information found here.

Please review the DRIVE AGX Developer Kit Flashing Technical Bulletin [login required] for known flashing issues, resolutions, and/or workarounds.

Also note the Additional Resources section of this document, which provides links to useful information for configuring your NVIDIA DRIVE AGX.

1.1. Valid Upgrade and Downgrade Paths

If you are installing NVIDIA DRIVE™ OS on DRIVE AGX Developer Kit Xavier or DRIVE AGX Developer Kit Pegasus for the first time, please skip to the Download and Run SDK Manager section.

If you previously installed a different version of DRIVE OS, this section provides important information about supported migration paths between DRIVE OS releases.

Each release of NVIDIA DRIVE OS provides increasing levels of capability and reliability. Additionally, each release provides slightly different features that may be more suitable for your application. In most cases, you will install newer DRIVE OS versions as they are released. However, in some cases, you may decide to install an earlier release.

The tables below describe the supported DRIVE OS migration paths. For example, before you install another product version over another product version, please ensure that migration path is supported. If a desired migration path is unsupported, you may need to install another product version first before installing the desired product version.

The specific order or product versions allows the installer to address product version differences, such as VBIOS, PCIe, and Aurix.

For information on the features added in each release, ask your NVIDIA representative for the DRIVE OS release notes for the releases under consideration.

1.1.1. Update Matrix: DRIVE OS and DRIVE Software

This table is for anyone who has access to DRIVE OS: partners.nvidia.com only, or partners.nvidia.com + developer.nvidia.com > DRIVE Program for DRIVE AGX.

  Note:  

DRIVE OS 5.1.9.0 and DRIVE Software 10.0 require a host PC running Ubuntu 18.04. Please review the System Requirements for more information.

 From:  To: 
 DRIVE Software 8.0   DRIVE OS 5.1.0.0   DRIVE Software 9.0   DRIVE OS 5.1.3.0   DRIVE OS 5.1.6.0   DRIVE Software 10.0   DRIVE OS 5.1.9.0 
N/A YES NO NO NO NO  DRIVE Software 8.0 
N/A YES NO NO NO DRIVE OS 5.1.0.0
YES YES N/A YES NO  DRIVE Software 9.0 
NO YES YES N/A NO NO  DRIVE OS 5.1.3.0 
NO NO YES N/A YES YES  DRIVE OS 5.1.6.0 
See Note #1 See Note #1 YES YES YES N/A See Note #2  DRIVE Software 10.0 
NO NO NO NO YES YES N/A  DRIVE OS 5.1.9.0 

  YES  

Supported   

  NO  

Not supported   

  –  

Not directly supported. Contact your NVIDIA representative for details.  

  Note #1  

To migrate from DRIVE Software 8.0 or DRIVE OS 5.1.0.0 to DRIVE Software 10.0, you must:   

  1. Install DRIVE Software 9.0, then

  2. Install DRIVE Software 10.0

  Note #2  

DRIVE OS 5.1.9.0 Linux to DRIVE Software 10.0 is supported.   

DRIVE OS 5.1.9.0 QNX to DRIVE Software 10.0 requires you to:  

  1. Install DRIVE OS 5.1.9.0 Linux, then

  2. Install DRIVE Software 10.0

 

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