Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:46:12 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are we ready for Native Flash? Message-ID: <46B0B8D4.1070907@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070801134630.60b9a9b8@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <46AA5977.9080206@pcbsd.com> <20070801134630.60b9a9b8@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:45:43 -0700 > Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com> wrote: > > >> Hey, just wanted to give folks a heads up. I'm hearing that we may be >> seeing a native Flash binary for FreeBSD in the future, depending on >> how quick we can port over Tamarin: >> >> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ >> >> They are working on a Linux port now, if anybody is interested in >> getting a FBSD port done that will help us a TON in getting Adobe to >> release Flash9 in a native FreeBSD format. No more Linux-emulation >> just to surf the web! >> > > > How does that actually work? It reads as if ecma runs on its > own virtual machine. So presumably if Flash were developed to run on > this it would be platform independent, and there wouldn't be a need > for *any* native Flash versions. > > If ecma is ready in 2008, is there a realistic possibility of Flash > working in the same year. > I got it to compile properly on i386 after some hacking, but the original authors were bad and assumed that the architecture is always 32-bit, so when I tried to compile amd64 it failed miserably. I'm going to try and get the 64-bit copy to compile sometime within the next week or two. -Garrett
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