I've just landed some changes to the installer.
The biggest is that it will now be using a kernel from an Open Build Service apt repo... this means that apt can be used to keep both the distro and the kernel up to date. Anyone who has an existing install shouldn't need to reinstall, just grab that config files from https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pineb...er/etc/apt and apt-get linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64 .
Perhaps against my better judgement, since I would rather see problems fixed in the right place than concealed with distro hackery, but I have also added some hacks to enable the audio DAC by default and dramatically reduce the boot time.
Cutting the boot time requires a seriously nasty trick to prevent the kernel scheduling anything in the slow clocked cores during boot. This can also be picked up without a reinstall but you'll probably have to go grubbing about in the installer etc directory to figure it out (/etc/default/u-boot and /etc/tmpfiles.d/00-enable-big-cores.conf, make sure the kernel is at least 5.4.2-2 from the open build service and ensure you update the bootloader with u-boot-update).
@Hexxeh: I'm afraid I have tested BT at this point. I recall something about needing to specify the MAC address but I haven't followed up.
The biggest is that it will now be using a kernel from an Open Build Service apt repo... this means that apt can be used to keep both the distro and the kernel up to date. Anyone who has an existing install shouldn't need to reinstall, just grab that config files from https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pineb...er/etc/apt and apt-get linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64 .
Perhaps against my better judgement, since I would rather see problems fixed in the right place than concealed with distro hackery, but I have also added some hacks to enable the audio DAC by default and dramatically reduce the boot time.
Cutting the boot time requires a seriously nasty trick to prevent the kernel scheduling anything in the slow clocked cores during boot. This can also be picked up without a reinstall but you'll probably have to go grubbing about in the installer etc directory to figure it out (/etc/default/u-boot and /etc/tmpfiles.d/00-enable-big-cores.conf, make sure the kernel is at least 5.4.2-2 from the open build service and ensure you update the bootloader with u-boot-update).
@Hexxeh: I'm afraid I have tested BT at this point. I recall something about needing to specify the MAC address but I haven't followed up.