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As of 03 Feb 2021, the master branch supports L4T R32.5.0/JetPack 4.5 content for all current Jetson platforms.

Changes from L4T R32.4.4/JetPack 4.4.1

NVIDIA documentation:

Machine name changes

Names of machine configuration files have change to match the updated naming convention in L4T R32.5.0. The main change is that all of the machine names now include devkit, to make it clearer that they correspond to developer kits rather than bare modules. Machine names unchanged from the last release are jetson-nano-2gb-devkit, jetson-xavier-nx-devkit, and jetson-xavier-nx-devkit-emmc.

Old name New name
jetson-tx1 jetson-tx1-devkit
jetson-tx2 jetson-tx2-devkit
jetson-tx2i jetson-tx2-devkit-tx2i
jetson-tx2-4gb jetson-tx2-devkit-4gb
jetson-nano-qspi-sd jetson-nano-devkit
jetson-nano-emmc jetson-nano-devkit-emmc
jetson-xavier jetson-agx-xavier-devkit
jetson-xavier-8gb jetson-agx-xavier-devkit-8gb

Flash layout file changes for Jetson Nano Developer Kit

On the Nano developer kit, all boot-related partitions have been relocated to the QSPI flash in R32.5.0. Only the rootfs partition gets written to the SDcard.

Kernel updated to 4.9.201

The Linux kernel in R32.5.0 has changed from being based on 4.9.140 to 4.9.201.

U-Boot updates

The U-Boot in L4T R32.5.0 changed from a base of U-Boot v2016.07 to U-Boot v2020.04. The meta-tegra layer switched to upstream U-Boot starting with the dunfell-l4t-r32.4.3 branch (and is at v2020.07 in gatesgarth and v2020.10 in master), but relevant patches added by NVIDIA for the L4T release have been ported to our branches.

JetPack updates

Only minor updates were made in JetPack 4.5, with little impact on recipes in meta-tegra.

New Features not implemented in meta-tegra

The following features have been added in L4T R32.5.0/JetPack 4.5 but have not (yet) been implemented in meta-tegra.

A/B rootfs redundancy

R32.5.0 introduced rootfs A/B redundancy for L4T, decoupled from the bootloader A/B redundancy feature (which was only available on TX2 and Xavier platforms).

Encrypted rootfs support

R32.5.0 added a mechanism for setting up the Ubuntu distribution to use LUKS to encrypt the rootfs (on TX2 and Xavier). The implementation is specific to the Ubuntu distro used for L4T/JetPack and the sample Trusty image NVIDIA provides. It was already possible to implement this feature with an OE/Yocto-based distro, so it's unlikely to be needed in meta-tegra.

VPI 1.0

R32.5.0 support VPI (Vision Programing Interface) version 1.0.12

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