Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:30:36 -0500 From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> 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... Message-ID: <1213972236.1505.14.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> (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 > > > Maybe the bounty would be better spent here, This was from an email on the gnome list from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> "As to the point about Flash, Kris also mentioned that he has the ear of someone at Adobe who was hinting that a capable developer willing to sign an NDA could be given code to work on a native Flash plug-in port. This could bode well for PC-BSD and FreeBSD should someone step up to do this work." > 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. > > Note: AFAIK linux-flashplugin9 is not completely stable on linux either... > > Bye, > Alexander. >
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