An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro

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I've just landed some changes to the installer.

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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. 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).

Thanks, Daniel! Works perfectly with the fixes applied manually. I think this is the most modern and usable Linux build on the Pinebook Pro so far (I have been testing mrfixit-debian, ayufan-bionic and manjaro).
Having GNOME and Evolution so snappy is a big plus for me.

I was having trouble with restoring alsa state within the running system, I ended up stopping alsa-state.service and restoring the state manually. Since then, audio worked properly.

Code:

sudo systemctl stop alsa-state.service
sudo install ./var/lib/alsa/asound.state /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
sudo /usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa -E XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/alsa/runtime restore
sudo systemctl start alsa-state.service