[Tinkerphones] Problems with git.goldelico.com?

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Grond,

> Am 19.11.2021 um 23:36 schrieb Grond <grond66 at riseup.net>:
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Having recently encountered a slew of software incompatibility issues on
> my Pandora related to it's ancient (3.2) kernel, I thought I give the
> letux kernel a try as I'd heard it could at least boot on the Pandora.

Yes, just tested yesterday...
But with some Letux OS Debian.

What I do not know if it boots well with the original OS.

> 
> Unfortunately, it seems that there is something wrong with the git
> server HTTP(S) server instance running on git.goldelico.com. I've tried
> both cloning the repo from the URL given on the project page
> (https://git.goldelico.com/letux-kernel.git) and adding it as a remote
> to my existing kernel source trees. In both cases it gets stuck with the
> message "Fetching objects: 2" printed to the terminal, and never
> completes, even after an hour or two (though it does continue to consume
> bandwidth the whole time).

> 
> I have managed to download the letux kernel source from both the github
> mirror and over git protocol via git://git.goldelico.com/gta04-kernel.git
> without issues (although I have also encountered similar problems with
> downloading from the later source in the past). But I thought I'd send a
> problem report to this mailing list, as I suspect that the maintainer(s)
> of git.goldelico.com are subscribed and might not have encountered this
> issue before.

Well, this is more or less expected. The git repo has grown to almost 3GB
and the server has a 10 MBit/s connection - and serves other things as well.

So it takes at least 40 minutes to fetch all the raw files through http
before git starts to do something. An upgrade to 40 MBit/s is planned to
come soon.

I do not know the details but the git protocol seems to be more clever in
knowing what to transfer first but is less robust for network interruptions.

This is why we mirror to github. This allows our server to just upload
the changes.

Anyways thank you very much for your report (since we do not regularily
look on the whole setup as a user does).

> 
> On a happier note, I look forward to trying out the letux kernel on my
> Pandora. If there are any tests/investigations that I can perform,

Yes, everything :) Most things are working except sound. There is no
proper driver setup.

WLAN just got a modification so that it will continue to work with future
kernels where the SDIO driver will be replaced.

> please let me know. If I make progress in getting new functionality
> running, I will make sure to send a patch this way.

That would be great! If you have contributions, then please also subscribe
and send to https://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/letux-kernel

> 
> Thanks to all for putting in the effort to keep old devices like mine
> running,

it is a lot of fun and pleasure to do so.

BR,
Nikolaus