This user is alternative name of fabio_m_de_francesco. Fabio Maria De Francesco ( talk) 20:53, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like to thank you for all your edits to the Linux kernel page. You are obviously very knowledgeable about the kernel.
However, I must ask if you know about Linux-libre, as the deblobbing efforts are ongoing and quite real. I run Parabola with a variant of the Linux-libre kernel, and it obviously has an effect because my laptop's internal Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card will not work due to missing firmware; proprietary firmware which Linux-libre removed from the mainline Linux kernel. I also get many "/* DEBLOBBED */" messages on boot, which indicate blobs were trying to be loaded, but they were removed; proprietary microcode, for instance.
Blobs in the Linux kernel are not obvious. They are hidden and sometimes well-hidden in plain site. For instance, some binaries are in .c files as long arrays of bytes. I invite you to download the Linux-libre source tree to read the deblob script, and compare the deblobbed source tree to the mainline one.
These binaries are not GNU GPLv2-covered, and would be violating the GNU GPLv2 if they were, because they are not in the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it".
Thank you. :)
185.89.35.4 ( talk) 19:24, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
I just read what you wrote on Talk:Linux kernel#Linux kernel licensing rules.
May I ask why you show disdain by stating that contributors who disagree with you are not even worthy of the term (by calling them ""contributors"")? Please can you show proof that Linux-libre is just "GNU propaganda"? Please can you explain why Linux-libre exists if the mainline Linux kernel is blob-free?
Have you seen what the Linux-libre deblob scripts remove and check for? Have you seen that they are indeed blobs? Do you want me to point you in the direction of one so you can see for yourself?
Thank you. :)
185.89.35.4 ( talk) 21:12, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Here is one such example of a blob: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.inc_shipped?h=v5.8-rc7
Here is another: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped?h=v5.8-rc7
Ans here is one more: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/pmu/fuc/gt215.fuc3.h?h=v5.8-rc7
As I'm sure you can see, these blobs are long sequences of bytes disguised as .c source files. No C programmer can understand them effectively. They are proprietary, binary blobs.
Thank you. :)
185.89.35.4 ( talk) 21:39, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Normally assemblers, compilers, linkers, etc. are classified as systems programs. Peter Flass ( talk) 03:35, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
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One of my edits was reverted by a very experienced user. We have exchanged some messages in his/her talk page but we still disagree. I'd like to go on to the relevant article's talk page in order to know what other users have to say on the subject. Obviously I'd like that these users could read what was reverted and see all the messages already exchanged. How can I solve my issue? Thanks in advance Fabio Maria De Francesco ( talk) 23:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
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In your last edit to
Linux kernel, you changed the text to Version 4.1 of Linux, released in June 2015, contains over 19.5 million lines of code contributed by almost 14,000 programmers.
[1] A total of 1,991 developers, of whom 334 are first contributors, have added more than 553,000 lines of code to version 5.8 compared to the previous.
but compared to the previous.
doesn't have a referent. Were you trying to say something like "compared to the foo lines of code added to the previous version."?
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15:22, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, I see you've been making a lot of good edits to Linux kernel, so I wondered if you could help with something. I came across Kernel virtual address space when searching through orphaned articles, and I'm not well-versed enough to know whether it's something that should have its own article, or whether it should be merged to "Linux kernel" or elsewhere. Do you have any suggestions as to what to do with it? ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 22:00, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
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This user is alternative name of fabio_m_de_francesco. Fabio Maria De Francesco ( talk) 20:53, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like to thank you for all your edits to the Linux kernel page. You are obviously very knowledgeable about the kernel.
However, I must ask if you know about Linux-libre, as the deblobbing efforts are ongoing and quite real. I run Parabola with a variant of the Linux-libre kernel, and it obviously has an effect because my laptop's internal Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card will not work due to missing firmware; proprietary firmware which Linux-libre removed from the mainline Linux kernel. I also get many "/* DEBLOBBED */" messages on boot, which indicate blobs were trying to be loaded, but they were removed; proprietary microcode, for instance.
Blobs in the Linux kernel are not obvious. They are hidden and sometimes well-hidden in plain site. For instance, some binaries are in .c files as long arrays of bytes. I invite you to download the Linux-libre source tree to read the deblob script, and compare the deblobbed source tree to the mainline one.
These binaries are not GNU GPLv2-covered, and would be violating the GNU GPLv2 if they were, because they are not in the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it".
Thank you. :)
185.89.35.4 ( talk) 19:24, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
I just read what you wrote on Talk:Linux kernel#Linux kernel licensing rules.
May I ask why you show disdain by stating that contributors who disagree with you are not even worthy of the term (by calling them ""contributors"")? Please can you show proof that Linux-libre is just "GNU propaganda"? Please can you explain why Linux-libre exists if the mainline Linux kernel is blob-free?
Have you seen what the Linux-libre deblob scripts remove and check for? Have you seen that they are indeed blobs? Do you want me to point you in the direction of one so you can see for yourself?
Thank you. :)
185.89.35.4 ( talk) 21:12, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Here is one such example of a blob: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.inc_shipped?h=v5.8-rc7
Here is another: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped?h=v5.8-rc7
Ans here is one more: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/pmu/fuc/gt215.fuc3.h?h=v5.8-rc7
As I'm sure you can see, these blobs are long sequences of bytes disguised as .c source files. No C programmer can understand them effectively. They are proprietary, binary blobs.
Thank you. :)
185.89.35.4 ( talk) 21:39, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Normally assemblers, compilers, linkers, etc. are classified as systems programs. Peter Flass ( talk) 03:35, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
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One of my edits was reverted by a very experienced user. We have exchanged some messages in his/her talk page but we still disagree. I'd like to go on to the relevant article's talk page in order to know what other users have to say on the subject. Obviously I'd like that these users could read what was reverted and see all the messages already exchanged. How can I solve my issue? Thanks in advance Fabio Maria De Francesco ( talk) 23:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
I added {{
Page needed}} to each of the book citations that you recently added to
Logic. If you can add specific page number ranges to the citations (with |pages=
), that would be helpful. Thanks,
Biogeographist (
talk)
13:26, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Regarding [1] and [2], please have a look at wp:FIRSTSENTENCE, wp:edit warring and wp:BRD. You can discuss on the article talk page. Thank you. - DVdm ( talk) 09:50, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Regarding Special:Diff/970787569, the presence or absence of a user page has nothing to do with pings. You can always ping registered accounts, and you can never ping IP addresses. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 16:33, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
In your last edit to
Linux kernel, you changed the text to Version 4.1 of Linux, released in June 2015, contains over 19.5 million lines of code contributed by almost 14,000 programmers.
[1] A total of 1,991 developers, of whom 334 are first contributors, have added more than 553,000 lines of code to version 5.8 compared to the previous.
but compared to the previous.
doesn't have a referent. Were you trying to say something like "compared to the foo lines of code added to the previous version."?
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (
talk)
15:22, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
References
Hello, I see you've been making a lot of good edits to Linux kernel, so I wondered if you could help with something. I came across Kernel virtual address space when searching through orphaned articles, and I'm not well-versed enough to know whether it's something that should have its own article, or whether it should be merged to "Linux kernel" or elsewhere. Do you have any suggestions as to what to do with it? ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 22:00, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I was directed to your talk page by the participants list on WikiProject Linux. I've started a discussion whether we can keep it running, or mark it as inactive.– Abuluntu ( talk 05:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
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