Deepin RISC-V preview Pioneer test report

Test environment

OS information

• OS version: Deepin 23 preview-20240815
• Download Links:
  • OS image: https://ci.deepin.com/repo/deepin/deepin-ports/cdimage/20240815/riscv64/deepin-23-beige-preview-riscv64-sg2042-20240815-125146.tar.xz
  • Firmware: https://ci.deepin.com/repo/deepin/deepin-ports/cdimage/latest/riscv64/bootloaders/sophgo-bootloader-single-sg2042-dev.zip
• Reference installation manual: https://deepin-community.github.io/sig-deepin-ports/docs/install/riscv/sg2042

Hardware info

• Milk-V Pioneer v1.3
• microSD Card (≥ 512MB)
• NVMe SSD (comes with this machine)
• microSD card reader
• NVMe-USB SSD enclosure
• USB-A to C / C to C cable
• VGA/HDMI monitor and cable (or a capture card as used in this test)
• USB keyboard & mouse

Installation steps

Extract and flash image

Use tar and unzip to extrace OS image and firmware.

Use dd to write these images.

Unzip sophgo-bootloader-multi-sg2042-dev.zip, write firmware_single_sg2042-dev.img to microSD card.

Erase all partitions on the NVMe SSD, recreate a GPT partition table, create a new partition and write the ext4 system image to this partition.

/dev/sdX, /dev/sdY are microSD card and the NVMe SSD.

unzip sophgo-bootloader-multi-sg2042-dev.zip
sudo wipefs -af /dev/sdX
sudo dd if=firmware_single_sg2042-dev.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M status=progress
sudo wipefs -af /dev/sdY
sudo fdisk /dev/sdY
# Enter g, n, and Enter *3, then enter w to write the changes to disk
tar -xvf deepin-23-beige-preview-riscv64-sg2042-20240815-125146.tar.xz
sudo dd if=./deepin-sg2042-riscv64-stable-desktop-installer.root.ext4 of=/dev/sdY1 bs=4M status=progress
echo ", +" | sudo sfdisk -N 1 /dev/sdY
sudo resize2fs /dev/sdY1

Login

Login via GUI.

Choose the language and keyboard layout and complete the installation wizard.

Default username: root

Default password: deepin

Expected Results

The system boots up normally and we can successfully login to the desktop.

Actual Results

The system boots normally，and we can successfully login to the desktop.

If we switch to another TTY (e.g. Ctrl + Alt + F2) then we can login to the shell.failed

The following screenshots are from USB HDMI capture card directly from the machine.

If you see the installation wizard jumps to a tty screen, please wait for a few minutes to load the login screen

Desktop

System Info:

Boot log

Screen recording (from flashing to bootup):

Check the screenshots above.

Test criteria

Successful: The actual result matches the expected result.

Failed: The actual result does not match the expected result.

Conclusion

Test successful.