From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 08:05:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898681065678; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7BA8FC1E; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72903680075; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:04:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SJZt1ZEKPV6K; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:04:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E5E67F704; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:04:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m5K84GRM012747; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:04:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:04:16 +0200 From: Roman Divacky To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20080620080416.GB12112@freebsd.org> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 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... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:05:14 -0000 On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:39:06AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting John Kozubik (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 overlooked 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 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 ago. 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 emulation in any way. iirc it runs (and crashes) on 2.4 as well. I remember it crashes in $the_thing_that_ff_uses_to_report_bugs which was some proprietary app which got replaced in ff3.0, you might want to check what happened. anyway - if someone wants to debug this, feel free to contact me, I am willing to help roman _