NX DevKit Boot Process: First Impressions

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Xavier NX
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PCIe/NVMe - we’re also working on getting a NVMe driver up for XNX, and we’re updating U-Boot to a recent upstream release (v2020.04) to bring in NVMe support on Nano, too. So you should be able to boot from NVMe in a future release on both Nano and XNX.

Are there any plans for AGX nvme boot? I copied my /usr /home /var/lib/docker/ and /tmp over to an ssd and it was working for a few months but this latest update left my system in an unbootable state with:

bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device

Official, tested, support for this would be very nice. A SD card or even emmc is very very slow in comparison.

Edit: the error seems unrelated to NVMe and my system boots now.

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You can always put just the devtree, kernel and initrd to APP partition of sdcard and have rootfs on nvme. That’s what I’m doing and it works fine (initrd needs a small patch to honor rootwait for nvme).

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