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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:41:00 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status of Flash 9 on stable 
Message-ID:  <20081014224100.5003C4500F@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:28:58 %2B0200." <200810142229.00295.tijl@ulyssis.org> 

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> From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:28:58 +0200
> 
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20:30:47 Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I have seen some messages that imply that flashplugin9 might be usable
> > on STABLE. The port is sill marked IGNORE, though:
> > ** Port marked as IGNORE: www/linux-flashplugin9:
> > 	Unstable, no sound, generally unusable state
> > 
> > I also thought that there might be a solution to the sound issue.
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm the status? I would be happy to delete the IGNORE
> > line if I thought it would work and I know what changes might be needed
> > to get it to work. Even without sound, it would probably be useful. Too
> > many sites are using Flash 9 for the entry page and there is no way to
> > get to the site at all with Flash 7.
> 
> Patches have been committed to CURRENT and should have been MFC'ed last
> weekend, but haven't for some reason.
> 
> The port has a PR waiting for maintainer feedback:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127839
> 
> The relevant thread on emulation@ is:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-September/005311.html

Tijl (and Paul).

Thanks! 

I saw the entry for the fix in the 7.1 release notes, so assumed that it
had been MFC'ed. I'll watch svn-src (or whatever cvs-src turned into)
for the commit(s).

I never have read emulation, so I need to go read the discussion.

Thanks again!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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