1. Setting Up DRIVE OS QNX

To use NVIDIA SDK Manager to set up a DRIVE OS QNX development environment, you need to ensure that your system meets certain requirements, and configure QNX as outlined below.

1.1. QNX SDP Installation Instructions for DRIVE QNX

As part of the NVIDIA DRIVE OS QNX release, an installation of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) is required. The QNX SDP release is published by QNX for download in the QNX Software Center (QSC). Use the following section to configure QNX SDP 7.0 to be compatible with DRIVE OS QNX.

  Note:  

While installing the QNX SDP, QSC may display a message indicating that it cannot complete the installation because one or more required items could not be found. This may indicate that your company needs permission to additional QNX SDP packages specific to NVIDIA. Please notify your NVIDIA Customer Program Manager and Technical Support Engineer, providing your corporate email domain, to request permission for these items.   

  Note:  

The QNX SDP contains symbolic links to some files. It is necessary to preserve all links for use on a DRIVE QNX target.   

To begin, you need to use the QNX Software Center application, which at the time of this writing, can be downloaded from:

http://www.qnx.com/download/group.html?programid=29178

From there, you need to download the Linux Host version of the QNX Software Center application. Note that you must be a registered QNX SDP 7.0 user with a myQNX account to download the QNX Software Center.

At the time of this writing, the QNX Software Center 1.3.1: Installation Note can be found at:

http://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/inst_6636_3.html

  Note:  

For the most up-to-date version of the QNX Software Center Installation Note: 

  1. Go to the QNX website, www.qnx.com, and log in to your myQNX account.    

  2. Select the Developers tab at the top of the page, and click the QNX Software Center link.    

  3. Scroll down the page, and click on the Linux Host link for See Installation/Release notes.    

Refer to the user guide at:

http://www.qnx.com/download/download/43710/qnx_qsc_user_guide_2019-06-18.pdf

1.2. Prerequisites

  • myQNX user account issued from QNX

  • Activated QNX SDP license keys issued from QNX

  Note:  

DRIVE OS 5.1.15.0 Requires QNX OS for Safety for Development

In addition to the QNX SDP license required for development, this release requires a QNX OS for Safety (QOS) project license. Please contact your NVIDIA Representative for QNX QOS Licensing information.

1.3. Import Offline Package

Follow these instructions to install the QNX SDP that is compatible with DRIVE QNX.

The DRIVE OS QNX SDK includes a QNX patch set file generated by using the Export feature of the QNX Software Center. The following instructions describe how to Import this file to install the QNX SDP.

The QNX Software Center lets you export and import patch sets. A patch set is like a recipe for installing packages. It tells the QNX Software Center not only which packages to install, but also which version of each package to install. QNX patch sets are explained in the Advanced Topics section of the QNX Software Center User Guide.

  Note:  

It is recommended that you remove ${HOME}/.qnx/swupdate/dropins/ prior to importing packages.

  1. In the QNX Software Center application, navigate to the Welcome to the QNX Software Center panel by clicking on the "home" icon that looks like a house.

  2. On the Welcome to the QNX Software Center panel, click on Import Offline Package.

  3. This opens the File Import Wizard.

    1. In Select File: enter the full path to the QNX patch set file included in the DRIVE QNX SDK. The filename is: 

      drive-t186ref-qnx-5.1.15.0-sdp-patchset.qpkg

    2. Click the Add new installation radio button.

    3. Click the Finish button.

  4. This will open the New Installation Wizard where you set installation properties.

    1. Set the Installation Folder: and Name: fields to your desired location and name.

    2. Set Update Policy: to the Conservative option.

    3. To install debug symbols, enable the Install debug symbols checkbox.

    4. Select the Install experimental packages checkbox.

    5. Ensure only the aarch64le checkbox is selected for Target Architectures.

    6. Click Next>.

  5. This will open the Install window where you check the items that you wish to install.

    1. Ensure the checkboxes are selected for all packages.

    2. Click Next>.

  6. Review Packages

    1. Review package names and versions.

    2. Click Next> again.

  7. License Key Selection

    1. Select the appropriate license key.

    2. Click Finish.

2. Set Up and Configure Minicom

If you do not configure minicom automatically through the SDK Manager installer, you can set it up manually by using the following steps.

  1. From a terminal window on the Linux host, check if minicom is installed by executing the command:
    minicom -s

  2. If Minicom is NOT installed, install by executing the command:

    sudo apt-get install minicom

  3. Configure minicom on the Linux host by once again executing the command:

    sudo minicom -s

    A configuration dialog displays.

  4. From the configuration dialog, select Serial Port Setup.

  5. Define the configuration as follows:

    • Serial Device: /dev/ttyUSB2

    • Lockfile location: /var/lock

    • Bps/Par/Bits: 115200 8N1

    • Hardware Flow Control: No

    • Software Flow Control: No

    • /dev/ttyUSB2 maps to Xavier A

    • /dev/ttyUSB3 maps to AURIX

    • /dev/ttyUSB6 maps to Xavier B

  6. Press Enter and click on Save setup as dfl, then select Exit.

Upon successful completion, a prompt window displays for the target system.

 

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