On 03/27/2018 09:39 AM, Chris Lamb wrote: > First, just to clarify, this is to do with seeing firmware quote-errors- > unquote when running update-initramfs and actually nothing to do with > messages originating from the kernel / "dmesg".
thats all i was trying to determine - it is the kernel error messages that this list is interested in - such as discussed in this thread from 2010[1] - although it does appear that this warning would be interesting as well - i think the important difference is that this one appears as a "warning" where the other appears to be an "error" (as if the user has done something wrong by neglecting to acquire the blob) On 03/27/2018 09:39 AM, Chris Lamb wrote:> However, I can see that this is not transparent to someone getting > hold of the source. indeed, the pureos website has no indication of this - now i understand why, because that VCS in on the puri.sm domain - i think it is safe to assume that this list would be in a fervor if even one link appeared on the pureos website directing users to the puri.sm domain - i hope that pureos is working toward separating their infrastructure from purism's - if pureos is hosting their source code on the puri.sm domain, that itself may be new FSDG problem to be addressed; but perhaps a contentious one On 03/27/2018 09:39 AM, Chris Lamb wrote: > "Clobbered" is, again, not quite accurate; there was indeed a "pureos2" > upload but it did not revert or change anything related to the above: i apologize if that was perceived as a loaded word - i meant "clobbered" only in the most plain, technical sense - it does not mean "reverted" - it does not even imply intentionality - it only means that some new thing replaced an old thing, entirely in its place, leaving no trace of the previous occupant - just as re-assigning a variable blindly evicts the previous value - in that sense, "clobbered" is entirely accurate and the appropriate technical term - it implies nothing else [1]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2010-12/msg00058.html
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