12-15-2019, 10:35 AM
(12-15-2019, 05:35 AM)danielt Wrote: 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...
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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.
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Cutting the boot time requires a seriously nasty trick to prevent the kernel scheduling anything in the slow clocked cores during boot
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Daniel, Kudos due on these efforts. They have the twin effect of advancing utility of the PBP, and of incrementing my impatience for January, when my shipment is due to arrive.
I hope you've patience with a question. In your announcement post, you mentioned that your installer should work to bootstrap alternative Debian-derived distributions, provided they have a relatively complete 64-bit ARM architecture port. I'm assuming that for Ubuntu, as example, this means fetching debootstrap_1.0.116ubuntu2_all.deb from /ubuntu/pool/main/d/debootstrap on archive.ubuntu.com — and that similar should be possible for derivatives Raspian, with your ability to specify an Open Build Source kernel. Is this right?
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