Jetson Linux


NVIDIA® Jetson™ Linux Driver Package is the board support package for Jetson. It includes Linux Kernel, UEFI bootloader, NVIDIA drivers, flashing utilities, sample filesystem based on Ubuntu, and more for the Jetson platform.

NVIDIA Jetson Linux 36.3

Jetson Linux 36.3 is a Production quality release which supports all Jetson AGX Orin, Jetson Orin NX, and Jetson Orin Nano Production Modules and Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit and Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit. It includes Linux Kernel 5.15, an Ubuntu 22.04 based root file system, a UEFI based bootloader, and OP-TEE as Trusted Execution Environment.

See the online Jetson Linux Developer Guide for detailed documentation.

Features

Jetson Linux 36.3 is part of JetPack 6.0 and adds the following highlights. (Please refer to release notes for additional details)

  • Production ready software stack
  • Preview of upgradable compute stack to upgrade CUDA, Tensorrt, CUDNN, DLA and VPI without upgrading Jetson Linux. Refer to JetPack documentation for running compute stack from this production release on JetPack 6 Developer Preview.
  • Power Estimator supported for JetPack 6.
  • Pre-built Kernel debian package with PREMPT_RT enabled.
  • Support for upgrading Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit from JetPack 5 to JetPack 6 without needing a host machine.
  • Over-The-Air (OTA) Update
    • Support for Over-The-Air (OTA) tool to upgrade NVIDIA Jetson Orin based devices from JetPack 5.
  • Security
    • Enabled support for security features, bringing parity with JetPack 5.
  • Power And Performance
    • Enabled support for power features, bringing parity with JetPack 5.
    • Power Estimator supported for JetPack 6.
  • Display
    • Support for Framebuffer console
    • Support for suspend/resume in Display Core Engine (DCE)
  • Multimedia
    • Support for H264 Constrained_Baseline and Constrained_High profiles
    • Dynamic Bitrate Rate, Dynamic FrameRate support for AV1 encoder
    • Dynamic Resolution Change[DRC] support for H264, H265 and AV1 encoder
    • UYVY BT.709 and BT.2020 colorimetry support for video transform
Jetson Linux Sources are now available on GIT in addition to the Jetson Linux page. Refer to section Jetson Linux Developer Guide .

Vulkan Support on L4T

Downloads and Links

Jetson Orin Modules and Developer Kit
Drivers Driver Package (BSP)
Sample Root Filesystem
Jetson Linux API Reference
Sources Driver Package (BSP) Sources
Sample Root Filesystem Sources
Sensor Processing Engine Sources
Docs

Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit User Guide
Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit User Guide

Release Notes

Jetson Linux Developer Guide (online version)

Software License Agreement
Jetson Linux API Reference
Release sha1sum hashes
Tools
WebRTC
Bootlin Toolchain gcc 11.3
Bootlin Toolchain Sources, 2022.08-1
Bringup Framework
CUDA Tools
NVIDIA Nsight Systems
NVIDIA Nsight Graphics
OTA Tools r36.3.0

Additional Files

File Supported hardware Supported Software Description
overlay_mb1bct_36.x.tbz2 Jetson AGX Orin Series, Jetson Orin NX Series and Jetson Orin Nano Series JetPack 6.0+ / Jetson Linux 36.2+ This overlay fixes a boot issue caused by the QSPI read timing not having sufficient margin to cover process, voltage, and temperature variations.
overlay_libcuda_36.3.tbz2 Jetson AGX Orin 64GB JetPack 6.0 / Jetson Linux 36.3 Overlay which fixes a bug related to memory issues with VK_KHR_ray_query extension on AGX Orin 64GB in the L4T 36.3 release.

To access other Jetson Linux release pages, please visit the Jetson Linux Archive.