Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:41:06 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: jamie@bishopston.net, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, narayan@neelum.com Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... Message-ID: <20080620104106.18826n68s55lwlc0@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20080620080416.GB12112@freebsd.org> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net> <20080620080416.GB12112@freebsd.org>
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Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> (from Fri, 20 Jun 2008 =20 10:04:16 +0200): > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:39:06AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Quoting John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008 >> 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)): >> >> >First, a bounty has been posted here: >> > >> >http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html >> > >> >> From the site: >> ---snip--- >> I will pay $200 to whoever can compose a working and stable recipe for >> running Adobe Flash 9 inside of the FreeBSD native version of Opera 9 >> on FreeBSD 6.x. This shouldn't be that hard - in fact, there is >> already a linux-flashplugin9 port. >> ---snip--- >> >> Comments from other people with some more money not included here... >> >> And now the sad reality check: linux-flashplugin9 will _never_ work on >> 6.x (lack of linux 2.6 emulation, and this is not a MFC candidate). >> >> Getting it to work on 7.x is possible. "All what you need" is >> nspluginwrapper to get it running in the native >> firefox/opera/whatever, and someone who is willing to debug the >> linuxulator (on -current, as there is a more complete 2.6 >> compatibility there, and this can be MFCed to 7.x) and find the >> bug/problem which is causing the crashes. Whoever is willing to tackle >> this: head over to emulation@ (CCed) and ask what debugging >> possibilities we have in the linuxulator. > > I tried to debug the flash9 and failed badly. It might be that I overlooke= d > something trivial but... > > the flash9 is a big binary-only monster and basically the only trace > of what its doing you can get is a syscall-trace. Which is not that much I think enabling the the linuxulator debug stuff and maybe adding some =20 more printfs at some places can reveal some more stuff... with some =20 in-deep reviewing of what happens. > useful. I didnt find any missing syscalls or something like that and the > fail is a complete mystery for me.... otoh I looked at this a LOONG time a= go. Which is in indication that there are some (subtle) differences =20 between the linuxulator and the real linux we have to track down. > I might want to look at it again (after some other things settle) > > > anyway... I dont think that flash9 crashes are related to 2.6 =20 > emulation in any > way. iirc it runs (and crashes) on 2.4 as well. I remember it crashes in Hmmm... now I'm not sure anymore, but I thought we had reports that it =20 runs better with 2.6... Bye, Alexander. --=20 I wish I was a sex-starved manicurist found dead in the Bronx!! http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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