OTA A/B rootfs update

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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So, let say I am currently using A rootfs partition as r36.1 and I want to do OTA update to the newest r36.4.3 at B rootfs partition (which is offline) instead of directly on the same A rootfs partition. How to make this update happening? Thanks.

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hello teikjin_lee,

please refer to JetPack Archive | NVIDIA Developer,
may I know the exactly BASE_BSP and TARGET_BSP of your OTA use-case?

besides,
please see-also developer guide, Preparing for an Image-Based OTA Update for reference.

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I am a new user actually, currently using latest r36.4.3. So my question was asking, if my current A rootfs partition is using r36.4.3 and in some day later NVIDIA releases let say r36.5.0. Instead of I do on the spot OTA update to my current A rootfs partition, I want it to update image-based update to my B rootfs partition. I saw the tutorial, but I am not sure if I understood correctly that I have to bring the Jetson Orin Nano device along to connect at my host machine to do the OTA? What I am trying to ask here is, can the image-based OTA does the online update without connecting with host machine whenever there is new update?

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hello teikjin_lee,

you may run OTA update without connecting a target to a host machine.

please visit L4T page, such as.. NVIDIA Jetson Linux 36.4.3 to download the [OTA Tools] package.
here’s readme file, Image_based_OTA_Examples.txt, it provides several examples of how to use an image-based OTA update for specific use cases.

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Thanks! Let me try out first.

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As I just read everything, it is all required host to connect with target to do the OTA push?

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you’ll need to copy the OTA payload to the target, which is able to copy via ethernet through scp commands.

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Is there video tutorial for this one instead of document guide? It is quite abstract to understand. So, if I understand correctly, this OTA payload is for this particular version upgrade. If there is newer one, I will have to do the same for generating the another new OTA payload, right?

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please refer to Tutorials | NVIDIA Developer for [Introduction to Jetson OTA Update].

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Now I understand the update architecture, just need to run some practical tests. By the way, that presentation slides do really helped very much!