[meta-freescale] Issue with freescale git server at git.freescale.com

[Bas Mevissen]

On 16/10/2017 15:46, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:05 AM, georg <g9685wd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:27 AM, georg <g9685wd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I have started a script this weekend which tries to do a git clone with
>>>> --mirror in a loop every hour till it succeeds. This was working, I have
>>>> now a cloned linux-imx.git repository which I can use in all future builds.
>>>>
>>>> Nonetheless it's very annoying to not be able to do a simple "bitbake
>>>> core-image-minimal" with a standard freescale evaluation board.
>>>
>>> I am curious to know which machine as we use linux-fslc-imx for most
>>> machines as default.
>>>
>> Ah, that's interesting. I thought it's the same repository for all
>> freescale processors. It's for imx6ull.
> 
> If you can, test rocko and change the machine to use u-boot-fslc and
> linux-fslc-imx so we confirm it works there. If it does, we can
> change.
> 

I can confirm git.freescale.com is slow. This might easily lead to 
timeouts.

git clone git://git.freescale.com/imx/linux-imx.git
Cloning into 'linux-imx'...
eatremote: Counting objects: 3791253
remote: Counting objects: 5278893, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (839205/839205), done.
Receiving objects:   4% (261343/5278893), 112.78 MiB | 87.00 KiB/s

Connection speed starts around 400KiB/s and drops sometimes to less than 
12KiB/s, even on a well-connected host. Checking out stuff from Github 
with this Germany based host flies.

I have had a similar experience in the past, but assumed it to be a 
temporarily issue. Apparently, it is more structural...

Cheers,

Bas.