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 Development Platform with a quadric devkit to follow this guide. Please contact sales@quadric.io to order a quadric devkit.

Requirements

1. A quadric devkit installed within a quadric Development Platform.

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
   

4. Finally set the frequency to 900mhz.

   $ thor-tool epu-set-freq 900
   Setting frequency to: 900MHz
   Frequency: 905MHz
   

Attention

The thor-tool epu-set-freq 900 command must be executed upon every system reboot. Please do not ignore this step.