From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 20:58:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7321065689 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from mailrelay008.isp.belgacom.be (mailrelay008.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.6.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BA68FC14 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:58:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) X-Belgacom-Dynamic: yes X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap0EAIic9EhR9Nun/2dsb2JhbACBcr4AgWs Received: from 167.219-244-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be (HELO kalimero.kotnet.org) ([81.244.219.167]) by relay.skynet.be with ESMTP; 14 Oct 2008 22:29:08 +0200 Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [127.0.0.1]) by kalimero.kotnet.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m9EKT1uf011335; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:29:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) From: Tijl Coosemans To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Kevin Oberman" Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:28:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20081014183047.DA9EA4500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20081014183047.DA9EA4500F@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810142229.00295.tijl@ulyssis.org> Cc: Subject: Re: Status of Flash 9 on stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:58:20 -0000 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 (continues in October archives)