Installing Devkit Drivers

Welcome to the guide for the quadric devkit. To install drivers for the devkit, please follow the guide below.

Note

You must have a quadric devkit to follow this guide. Please contact sales@quadric.io to order a quadric devkit.

Requirements

1. A quadric devkit.

2. quadric SDK Version 0.9.0 or greater.

Steps

1. Navigate to the drivers folder within the your quadric SDK package.

   $ cd drivers
   

2. Install the drivers using the command below. This process will require sudo privileges.

   $ ./install_drivers.sh
   Preparing to unpack thor-dkms_0.1.0-1_all.deb ...
   
   Unpacking thor-dkms (0.1.0-1) over (0.1.0-1) ...
   Setting up thor-dkms (0.1.0-1) ...
   Loading new thor-0.1.0 DKMS files...
   Building for 4.15.0-136-generic
   Building initial module for 4.15.0-136-generic
   Done.
   
   thor:
   Running module version sanity check.
    - Original module
      - No original module exists within this kernel
    - Installation
      - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/updates/dkms/
   
   depmod...
   
   DKMS: install completed.
   
   Installing collected packages: thor
     Attempting uninstall: thor
     Running setup.py develop for thor
   Successfully installed thor-1.0.0
   Driver installation complete
   

3. Use the thor-tool to detect your attached quadric devkit. A successful message resembles the output below.

   $ thor-tool probe
   /dev/thor0
   chip_id         0x00010000
   clk_status      0x0000003f
   

Updating Devkit Firmware

Follow the guide below to install new firmware on the quadric devkit.

Steps

1. First locate the firmware file provided (denoted as an .img), then simply use the thor-tool command line tool as shown below.

   $ thor-tool firmware flash thor_fw.img
   Firmware size 16980 bytes. Using region 1 (offset 0x00020000, size 126976).
   Erasing region...
   [############################################################] 100% | 5 / 5 sectors
   Writing firmware...
   [############################################################] 100% | 67 / 67 pages
   Reading back firmware...
   [############################################################] 100% | 67 / 67 pages
   Verifying firmware...
   Committing new firmware...
   Successfully flashed firmware.
   

2. To complete the update, reboot the machine.

   $ sudo reboot