From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 22:13:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834F816A469 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115AE13C474 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:13:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so274306nfb for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:13:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=UISxDN+8lTQ/YzPTfGvTObOMg1Ew6aiChgQwZucvqC0=; b=XmXtOAZ8bFTzYmCXLa03J8sFjUPVMZkbHH1iLVf92T+RvYAvBVm/j0tisLwrDZP7XUiVUnFhAXAr4aTTA9gT05kos861MCynqvfIl4uAAQ0+tfNg0SKLkOYYsYwEaEr3UydFlQ4jJPNvgsmKQIGTsgbzIwOW0QBsxKnDYB7w3R0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KZdtyom0eV+dEFcnJmmSBC4vsoCs8/IFPilV6sD+MOBpas0zuFXXV4bNcJAQRUw7vBFFugITsxbehMuK5tibYhcYvuu1xz1M56dHN2Z/7R8ZHr5P6EX0p2wLjvxaL7IG+bxOdGLuBjpzO/DnGmB8FRi2yEvyGkOV99/XMHx+m84= Received: by 10.86.60.7 with SMTP id i7mr804266fga.1192745636525; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.91.5 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <11167f520710181513n71e1d317r543ffaad94c19543@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:13:56 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: "Roman Divacky" In-Reply-To: <20071018203148.GA11544@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: Alexander@leidinger.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:13:58 -0000 On 10/18/07, Roman Divacky 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.