How to install Archlinux on NVIDIA jetson nano developer kit

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Description of single Board PC https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous ... tson-nano/

[summers]

Understand how the board boots.

Compile uboot for the board, and get the board to boot into uboot.

Copy armv8 arm arch file system to the machine, and get uboot to boot into it.

Ensure that uboot loads a device tree for the board.

Thats should about do it, some of these steps are more complicated than others.

[rafaelcastellar]

Is there a more detailed walkthrough? I have no idea about how to get UBOOT like you said..

Thanks!

[summers]

Uboot it available here: https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot

But first you really need to understand how the machine boots. its an armv8 machine, and they regularly have secure boot. If this is the case you need to understand how to sign the uboot.

Then you need to understand if the cpu has some form of a boot loader internally and what it does. What does it go to on the flash/emmc/sdcard. All this needs understanding before you even go to uboot.

And have you wired up the uart on the board? Thats where you'll see messages.

If this sounds scary, thats becuase it is, booting an unsupported board takes time and effort. But if you look here, you see some people that have done it, I run arch on my pocket beagle, which isn't supported. We got arch running on the asus board, but still don't have bluetooth working, as that needs a patch to the mainline kernel. Others have done the same, but think we would all say, it took quite a bit of effort - and you need to be good in the first place.

[rafaelcastellar]

Tks summers! It really scares hehehe....I will study those topics better...

tks and rgds!