Ubuntu Certified Docking Stations Coverage for 26.04 LTS

Introduction

Although docking stations are currently out of scope of the general Ubuntu Desktop Certified Hardware programme at Canonical, we have an extension to the programme to enable and certify a particular docking station with an already Ubuntu certified system. This programme does not certify a particular docking station to work with all Ubuntu certified systems, nor will a docking station be tested and/or certified in isolation, but always as part of the certification of a full system.

This document lists the coverage for certification of docking stations for Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS. This coverage will remain as it is for Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS through the life cycle of Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS.

For each test job, one of the following certification statuses is specified:

Blocking

Features that are required for certification. If any of the blocking tests fails, the certification will fail.

Non-blocking

Features that are tested but not mandatory for certification. Failure in non-blocking tests will not prevent certification. However, a note will be added to the certificate to inform potential customers or users.

Note

Only categories of hardware are tested and not specific types of hardware. For example, tests are run to verify USB controllers work, but the type of peripheral(s) used during those tests are not specified.

Coverage is flexible based on customer requirements (for example, if a device’s use cases don’t require LEDs, then LEDs can be non-blocking)

Certain test jobs are designed to validate specific hardware capabilities, such as camera and audio playback functionality. To ensure that the required hardware capabilities are present and properly recognised on the machine under test, these features are explicitly defined in manifest entries and linked to the relevant test jobs. This prevents test jobs from being skipped due to system deficiencies in automated detection.

Full test descriptions can be found in Canonical certification site for partners:

https://certification.canonical.com

Note

At the time of this writing, only wired docks are supported. Wireless docking requires functionality that is not known to be supported by IHVs.

Note

This also does not cover “smart” docks, i.e. docks that contain additional components (like graphics adapters, etc.).

Main testing flow

Once the connected components like DP monitors, HDMI monitors, and ethernet cables have been plugged, they will remain plugged in throughout testing. However, for user-removable components such as USB drives or Thunderbolt storage devices, hotplugging functionality will be tested. The testing process will follow a flow similar to:

  1. Plug all the components into the docking station

  2. Unplug the storage when meet the storage test

  3. Start storage testing(Insert, auto, remove)

  4. Plug it back when finish the storage test

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