10:12 <borneoa___> PaulFertser: hi, Jenkins is not building anymore the new commits. And I cannot see anymore the button to trigger a manual build. Can you please have a check? The tab 'manage Jenkins ' reports some error on versions, but I don't know if it was there already

13:05 <PaulFertser> borneoa___: yes, I was checking it since yesterday evening. Guess I'll go through the upgrading process today if you do not absolutely need it building right now? The upgrade is kinda long overdue.

13:09 <PaulFertser> I tried to install Monitoring plugin yesterday and that somehow lead to upgrading of some other plugin and as the result gerrit trigger plugin isn't loaded too. Didn't notice it last night, was planning and reading about properly upgrading the whole thing today.

13:17 <borneoa___> PaulFertser: take your time, nothing urgent and we can trigger the build later. Thanks

13:19 <PaulFertser> borneoa___: sorry about this silliness with Jenkins, it was sometimes allocating too much memory (more than 1G while the VM heap was 512 MiB) and that was leading to swap thrashing and that was what made Gerrit slow. So I was looking around and trying thing and ended up with this attempt at Monitoring finally forcing me to upgrade.

13:19 <PaulFertser> I'll trigger the builds to test the upgrade for sure :)

14:02 <Hammdist> will arbitrarily long JTAG cables work at sufficiently low speeds?

14:03 <Hammdist> https://www.digikey.gr/en/products/detail/adafruit-industries-llc/206/7244928 want to connect two boards with something like this

14:03 <Hammdist> 6in ~= 15cm

17:02 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: 15 cm isn't long

17:02 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: especially if they have every second wire grounded.

17:03 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: I do not think it can be problematic if you use a JTAG adapter which at least has the source termination resistors.

17:03 <Hammdist> based on a discussion in electronics channel I may attempt shielded ethernet cable with ST buffers at the receiving sides (and source termination resistors as you mention)

17:04 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: though that picture doesn't seem to be showing a JTAG cable. What pinout is it supposed to be good for?

17:04 <Hammdist> I expect this to work to longer lengths than dupont style

17:04 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: 15 cm is "nothing"

17:05 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: you probably remember PATA hard drives and the cables they used to connect?

17:05 <Hammdist> hm kay. on electronics they said 15-20 is the recommended maximum for JTAG

17:05 <PaulFertser> With IDC40 cables

17:08 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: in any case the cable you referenced doesn't seem to be suitable for JTAG, it's just weird, why is it single-row for starters?

19:21 <Hammdist> well I think of JTAG as GND + 4 signals so it could fit on 5 pins. the extra pin could be used for a reset line GPIO

19:26 <Hammdist> it seems JTAG-specific cables might be designed to minimize the loop areas between signal and GND wires

19:28 <PaulFertser> Hammdist: there's e.g. Arm Cortex standard JTAG connector and it's double row. MIPS EJTAG is double row too.

20:03 <PaulFertser> Building still not right, it's checking out wrong revision, not the one triggered.

21:06 <PaulFertser> Jenkins should be fully working now. Chewing through the backlog.