Install Coral AI PCIe Edge TPU on Raspberry Pi 5

coral-ai-pcie-edge-tpu-raspberrypi-5-setup

#!/bin/bash

cd /

sudo apt update

echo "deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt coral-edgetpu-stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/coral-edgetpu.list

curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get install libedgetpu1-std

sudo apt install -y devscripts debhelper

sudo apt install dkms

sudo apt-get install dh-dkms

# Clone the Gasket driver repository
sudo git clone https://github.com/google/gasket-driver.git

# Change directory to the cloned repository
cd gasket-driver

# Build the Gasket driver package
sudo debuild -us -uc -tc -b

# Go back to the parent directory
cd ..

# Install the built Gasket driver package
sudo dpkg -i gasket-dkms_1.0-18_all.deb


sudo sh -c "echo 'SUBSYSTEM==\"apex\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"apex\"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/65-apex.rules"

sudo groupadd apex

sudo adduser $USER apex


# Update the boot configuration for Raspberry Pi
echo "kernel=kernel8.img" | sudo tee -a /boot/firmware/config.txt

# Back up the Device Tree Blob (DTB) 
sudo cp /boot/firmware/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb /boot/firmware/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb.bak 

# Decompile the DTB into a DTS file 
sudo dtc -I dtb -O dts /boot/firmware/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb -o ~/test.dts 

# Modify the Device Tree Source (DTS) 
sudo sed -i '/pcie@110000 {/,/};/{/msi-parent = <[^>]*>;/{s/msi-parent = <[^>]*>;/msi-parent = <0x67>;/}}' ~/test.dts

# Recompile the DTS back into a DTB 
sudo dtc -I dts -O dtb ~/test.dts -o ~/test.dtb 

# Replace the old DTB with the new one 
sudo mv ~/test.dtb /boot/firmware/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb

sudo reboot now

@mateuszdrab there's no need to modify anything anymore :) For Pi5's running Coral TPU add following to /boot/firmware/config.txt:

dtparam=pciex1
dtparam=pciex1_gen=3
kernel=kernel8.img
dtoverlay=pineboards-hat-ai

then run:

curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt coral-edgetpu-stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/coral-edgetpu.list


apt-get install -y gasket-dkms libedgetpu1-std

Restart the pi and it magically works 🥳

That could potentially be the case on Raspberry Pi OS but on Ubuntu it's not or at least was not for me.

Gasket would not install from apt due to some error so had to be compiled from source.

Kernel8 seems not needed since Ubuntu is on 4k page size anyway, dtoverlay did not work since the file is not found but the device is found in lspci anyway

Without changing the device tree msi-parent option the card would be detected by lspci but Frigate was not able to initialize it and I saw interrupt errors in dmesg.

Guessing that Ubuntu is behind a bit with the fixes.