JetPack 4.x / Tegra 32.2 Support for Jetson TX2 & Orbitty

[SzGabor]

Hello, We failed to boot BalenaOs using SD card. Stucked at NVIDIA screen.

Tried configurations:

• Orbitty
  • JetPack 4.2.2 (L4T 32.2.1)
  • CTI - L4T Board Support Package (L4T 32.2.1)
  • BalenaOs (orbitty-tx2-2.45.1+rev1)
• Jetson TX2
  • JetPack 4.3 (L4T 32.2.1)
  • BalenaOs (jetson-tx2-2.46.1+rev1)

It seems that BalenaOs do not supports L4T 32.x, as stated by documentation.

Get Started with balenaCloud using Nvidia Jetson TX2 and Go - Balena...

Based on some threads on different forums it seems that most of the development for supporting L4T 32.x is almost out there, and it is expected to be available soon after NVIDIA released the 32.2 version of L4T which contains some bootloader bug-fixes.

Jetson TX2 Jetpack 4.2 with kernel driver modifications

Hi @gancev, Currently we don’t have an estimation of release for BalenaOS on L4T 32.1 (Jetpack 4.2). We are waiting for a new L4T release (L4T 32.2) with bootloader fixes that will allow resizing Nvidia bootloader partitions, but we don’t have a specific time frame. The reason you see the startup screen when trying to boot from an sd-card with L4T 28.2 is that the old kernel is not compatible with the new dtbs and firmwares that are already flashed on the emmc with the JetPack 4.2, and vice-ve…

Are there any planned release in the foreseeable future that would support L4T32 (including Orbitty board based version)?

Best Regards
Gábor

[anujdeshpande]

Hi Gábor

Yes we absolutely have plans for supporting this. We will be rolling out support in a few weeks i.e. early Feb.

[SzGabor]

Thanks for your response. Can’t wait for the new release