Overview

NVIDIA is pleased to announce the latest release of Linux for Tegra is now available.

NVIDIA Tegra Linux Driver Package supports development for the following platform:

  • NVIDIA® Tegra® X2 series (Jetson TX2 Development Kit)

Supported Features

  • Kernel version 4.4.15
  • Support for 64-bit user space and runtime libraries
  • Vulkan Support
  • V4L2 media-controller driver support for camera sensors (bypassing ISP)
  • libargus provides low-level frame-synchronous API for camera applications
    • RAW output CSI cameras needing ISP can be used with either libargus or GStreamer plugin
  • Media APIs:
    • OpenGL 4.5
    • OpenGL ES 3.2
    • OpenGL ES path extensions
    • EGL 1.4 with EGLImage
  • X Resize, Rotate and Reflect Extension (RandR) 1.4
  • X11 Support
  • U-Boot

Vulkan Support on L4T

System Requirements

  • Host PC running Ubuntu Linux version 14.04 is recommended.
  • Tegra Linux Driver Package providing a kernel image, bootloader, NVIDIA drivers, and flashing utilities. For more information, see the Release Notes.
  • Sample filesystem (example provided)

27.1 Driver Package


To access older versions of L4T, please visit the Linux For Tegra Archive.