Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:13:56 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: "Roman Divacky" <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander@leidinger.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9 Message-ID: <11167f520710181513n71e1d317r543ffaad94c19543@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071018203148.GA11544@freebsd.org> References: <20071008125558.GE1509@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <790a9fff0710080752k90c1ac3r23856304f176648e@mail.gmail.com> <18186.18515.36297.742895@whale.home-net> <200710101940.l9AJetsx013837@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20071018195144.GA12546@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20071018203148.GA11544@freebsd.org>
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On 10/18/07, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > There was a report on -current a while ago that a preliminary patch > > > to fix the non-threadsafeness of mmap(2) MAP_FIXED also makes flash9 work, > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/075968.html > > I wrote that and I was wrong... it doesnt seem to fix the flash9 problem for me. > > > > a fix for that seems to have been committed (kib 2007-08-20) and also > > > mfc'd to RELENG_6 by now (kib 2007-09-09), so, can anyone running either > > > verify that flash9 still crashes for them? > > > > Ok I now have a sucess story for RELENG_7 using linux-base-fc4 > > (hi wallshot! :) - he couldnt get it to work with linux-base-f7), and > > I myself (he tested too) couldnt get it working by merging the RELENG_6 > > commit to 6.2, or by testing a RELENG_6 kernel and linux.ko on 6.2 userland. > > So it looks like you need 7, and there's still work to be done for the > > linux 2.6 emulation there also. > I too am confused, if you have flash 9 working in firefox on RELENG_7 please give us a detailed how to there are just a TON of people looking for this. I have 5 systems I would test it out on right now, 2 of them are teenager computers so they would get a workout on youtube , among other sites that require flash 8 :) Sam Fourman Jr.
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