Requirements for Your Development Environment

Getting Started

Follow these high-level steps to set up your development environment – host machine and target DRIVE AGX Developer Kit:

Verify you meet the system requirements for installing software on your DRIVE AGX Developer Kit.
Review the Important Installation Information section.
Review other important documentation, such as:
- DRIVE OS 6.0.5 Release Notes
Download SDK Manager.
Finally, review the SDK Manager installation section of this guide to install DRIVE OS with DriveWorks on your host machine, and flash the target device.

OR

As an alternative to steps 4 and 5 above, try the DRIVE OS Docker containers on NVIDIA GPU Cloud. For more information, see the section on NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC).??

System Requirements

?Category? ?Requirement?

Host Machine?

Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 18.04 (depending on your installation method).
Working Internet connection
SDK Manager requires /usr/bin/python on the host system. Please refer to Install the SDK Manager Package.

GPU ? DRIVE OS requires an NVIDIA Ampere-based GPU for GPU development

Architecture?

X86_64

Memory ?

8GB

Free Disk Space?

A minimum of 70GB and up to 120GB (during flash) free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

GUI?

X11 must be enabled on the host.

Graphics Driver?

The most recent graphics driver for your GPU needs to be installed on the host system. To update your driver, use one of the following methods:?

Download the .run file for your particular GPU and OS.
OR
Use the apt-get method.

WARNING: Do not mix both the download and apt-get methods, as this is not supported.

The CUDA version and minimum Linux x86_64 graphics driver for the DRIVE OS?6.0.5 release is:

?CUDA Toolkit ?? ?Linux x86_64 Driver Version??

?CUDA 11.4.18?? ?>=470.141.03??

Docker The minimum required version of Docker Engine to run DRIVE OS Linux Docker containers is 19.03.

Target Device?

The following supported development platform:

NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit

Additional Hardware?

USB micro and C cables to connect the host machine to the target. See the DRIVE AGX Orin Hardware Quickstart Guide for more information.

Optional NVIDIA Docker Container Toolkit

Important Installation Information

In order to verify that networking is properly configured for the DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit, please review the DRIVE AGX board setup information found in the DRIVE AGX Orin Hardware Quickstart Guide.

Valid Migration Paths

To update to DRIVE OS?6.0.5, you must have a previous release on your host development environment and flashed on your target DRIVE AGX System, which is noted as supported for upgrade to DRIVE OS ?6.0.5 in the table below.

Once your host development environment and DRIVE AGX System are updated to DRIVE OS ?6.0.5, you may only downgrade to previous releases noted as supported in the table below.


?From:			?To:?
?DRIVE OS 6.0.3.1 Linux?	?DRIVE OS 6.0.4.0 Linux?	?DRIVE OS 6.0.5.0 Linux?	?To:?
N/A	NO	NO	?DRIVE OS 6.0.3.1 Linux?
NO	N/A	YES	?DRIVE OS 6.0.4.0 Linux?
NO	YES	N/A	?DRIVE OS 6.0.5.0 Linux?


??YES??	Supported ??
??NO??	Not supported ??

Troubleshooting

For troubleshooting support, refer to your support engineer or post your questions onto the NVIDIA Developer Forum.