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Environment Installation

Please follow the Hardware Installation guide to install the Radxa AICore AX-M1 on the host device.

Check Device Connection Status​

  • Use lspci to confirm if the Radxa AICore AX-M1 is recognized.
Host
lspci
0000:01:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Axera Semiconductor Co., Ltd Device 0650 (rev 01)

Install Driver​

  • Install Dependencies
Host
sudo apt install gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) make
  • Install AXCL Driver
Host
sudo dpkg -i ./axcl_host_aarch64_V3.0.2_20250326020141_NO4723.deb
  • Verify Installation
Host
axcl-smi
rock@rock-5b-plus:~$ axcl-smi
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| AXCL-SMI  V3.0.2_20250326020141                                  Driver  V3.0.2_20250326020141 |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------------------+
| Card  Name                     Firmware | Bus-Id       |                          Memory-Usage |
| Fan   Temp                Pwr:Usage/Cap | CPU      NPU |                             CMM-Usage |
|=========================================+==============+=======================================|
|    0  AX650N                     V3.0.2 | 0000:01:00.0 |                149 MiB /      945 MiB |
|   --   66C                      -- / -- | 1%        0% |                 18 MiB /     7040 MiB |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                                     |
| Card      PID  Process Name                                                   NPU Memory Usage |
|================================================================================================|

Uninstall Driver​

If you need to uninstall the AXCL driver, you can use the following command to uninstall.

Host
sudo apt remove axclhost