NixOS LPi4A Test Report

Test Environment

System Information

• System Version: NixOS 23.05
• Download Link: Releases · ryan4yin/nixos-licheepi4a
  • u-boot: Releases · ryan4yin/nixos-licheepi4a
• Fastboot Links:
  • Baidu Pan Link
  • MegaNZ Link

Hardware Information

• Lichee Pi 4A (8GB RAM + 32GB eMMC)
• Power Adapter
• A microSD card
• A USB to UART Debugger

Installation Steps

Flashing Image

Use zstd to decompress the image. Use dd to flash the image to the microSD card.

zstd -d /path/to/nixos-licheepi4a-sd-image-23.05.20230806.240472b-riscv64-linux.img.zst
sudo dd if=/path/to/nixos-licheepi4a-sd-image-23.05.20230806.240472b-riscv64-linux.img.zst of=/dev/your_device bs=1M status=progress

Flashing Bootloader

Enter fastboot mode.

• Press BOOT while powering on.
• (Refer to the official tutorial) Use the fastboot command to flash u-boot.

sudo ./fastboot flash ram ./path/to/your/u-boot-with-spl.bin
sudo ./fastboot reboot
sudo ./fastboot flash uboot ./path/to/your/u-boot-with-spl.bin

Logging into the System

Logging into the system via the serial port.

default username：lp4a default password: lp4a

Expected Results

The system should boot normally and allow login via the onboard serial port.

Actual Results

The system booted successfully and login via the onboard serial port was also successful.

Boot Log

Screen recording:

[  OK  ] Mounted FUSE Control File System.
[  OK  ] Mounted Kernel Configuration File System.
[  OK  ] Finished Load/Save OS Random Seed.
[  OK  ] Finished Apply Kernel Variables.
[  OK  ] Finished Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
         Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
[  OK  ] Started Rule-based Manager for Device Events and Files.
[FAILED] Failed to start Firewall.
See 'systemctl status firewall.service' for details.
[  OK  ] Finished Create Volatile Files and Directories.
         Starting Rebuild Journal Catalog...
         Starting Network Time Synchronization...
         Starting Record System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP...
[  OK  ] Finished Rebuild Journal Catalog.
[  OK  ] Finished Record System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP.
         Starting Update is Completed...
[  OK  ] Finished Update is Completed.
[  OK  ] Started Network Time Synchronization.
[  OK  ] Found device /dev/ttyS0.
[  OK  ] Finished Coldplug All udev Devices.
[  OK  ] Created slice Slice /system/systemd-backlight.
[  OK  ] Reached target Sound Card.
[  OK  ] Listening on Load/Save RF …itch Status /dev/rfkill Watch.
         Starting Load/Save Screen …f backlight:pwm-backlight@0...
[  OK  ] Finished Load/Save Screen … of backlight:pwm-backlight@0.
[  OK  ] Reached target System Initialization.
[  OK  ] Started logrotate.timer.
[  OK  ] Started Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
[  OK  ] Reached target Timer Units.
[  OK  ] Listening on D-Bus System Message Bus Socket.
[  OK  ] Listening on Nix Daemon Socket.
[  OK  ] Reached target Socket Units.
[  OK  ] Reached target Basic System.
         Starting Kernel Auditing...
         Starting CPU Frequency Setup...
         Starting DHCP Client...
         Starting Logrotate configuration check...
         Starting Name Service Cache Daemon (nsncd)...
[  OK  ] Started Reset console on configuration changes.
         Starting resolvconf update...
         Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status...
[  OK  ] Started Name Service Cache Daemon (nsncd).
[  OK  ] Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status.
[  OK  ] Finished Kernel Auditing.
[  OK  ] Finished CPU Frequency Setup.
[  OK  ] Finished Logrotate configuration check.
[  OK  ] Reached target Host and Network Name Lookups.
[  OK  ] Reached target User and Group Name Lookups.
         Starting D-Bus System Message Bus...
         Starting User Login Management...
[  OK  ] Stopped target Host and Network Name Lookups.
         Stopping Host and Network Name Lookups...
[  OK  ] Stopped target User and Group Name Lookups.
         Stopping User and Group Name Lookups...
         Stopping Name Service Cache Daemon (nsncd)...
[  OK  ] Stopped Name Service Cache Daemon (nsncd).
[  OK  ] Finished resolvconf update.
[  OK  ] Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
[  OK  ] Reached target Preparation for Network.
[  OK  ] Reached target All Network Interfaces (deprecated).
         Starting Networking Setup...
         Starting Name Service Cache Daemon (nsncd)...
[  OK  ] Started User Login Management.
[  OK  ] Started Name Service Cache Daemon (nsncd).
[  OK  ] Reached target Host and Network Name Lookups.
[  OK  ] Reached target User and Group Name Lookups.
[  OK  ] Finished Networking Setup.
         Starting Extra networking commands....
[  OK  ] Finished Extra networking commands..
[  OK  ] Reached target Network.
         Starting SSH Daemon...
         Starting Permit User Sessions...
[  OK  ] Finished Permit User Sessions.
[  OK  ] Started Getty on tty1.
[  OK  ] Started Serial Getty on ttyS0.
[  OK  ] Reached target Login Prompts.


<<< Welcome to NixOS 23.05.20230806.240472b (riscv64) - ttyS0 >>>

Run 'nixos-help' for the NixOS manual.

lp4a login: lp4a
Password:

[lp4a@lp4a:~]$ uname -a
Linux lp4a 5.10.113 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 1980 riscv64 GNU/Linux

[lp4a@lp4a:~]$ neofetch
          ▗▄▄▄       ▗▄▄▄▄    ▄▄▄▖            lp4a@lp4a
          ▜███▙       ▜███▙  ▟███▛            ---------
           ▜███▙       ▜███▙▟███▛             OS: NixOS 23.05.20230806.240472b (Stoat) riscv64
            ▜███▙       ▜██████▛              Host: T-HEAD Light Lichee Pi 4A configuration for 8GB DDR board
     ▟█████████████████▙ ▜████▛     ▟▙        Kernel: 5.10.113
    ▟███████████████████▙ ▜███▙    ▟██▙       Uptime: 1 min
           ▄▄▄▄▖           ▜███▙  ▟███▛       Packages: 306 (nix-system)
          ▟███▛             ▜██▛ ▟███▛        Shell: bash 5.2.15
         ▟███▛               ▜▛ ▟███▛         Terminal: /dev/ttyS0
▟███████████▛                  ▟██████████▙   CPU: (4) @ 1.848GHz
▜██████████▛                  ▟███████████▛   Memory: 172MiB / 7781MiB
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Test Criteria

Successful: The actual result matches the expected result.

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

Test Conclusion

Test successful.