Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:56:34 +0100 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+k@aldan.algebra.com>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: flash9 checklist (was: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD) Message-ID: <20081028205634.GA93288@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20081028181731.GA30591@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <200810280859.24048@aldan> <20081028181731.GA30591@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:17:31PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:59:23AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I'm having serious problems with Adobe's Flash 9 and 10 on my FreeBSD-7/amd64 > > system. > > > > If I try to use it directly with linux-firefox, the entire browser crashes > > quickly. If I try www/nspluginwrapper with a native browser, the > > wrapper-launched npviewer.bin seg-faults instead. Either way, the plugin does > > not work... > > > > It appears, there was some activity recently in trying to fix these problems > > (is it all in linprocfs/?) What is the current status? Thanks, > > > > -mi > > Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox: > (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on > -emulation...) If you have additions to this please post a followup to > this thread, keeping the Cc: (I'm not on -questions...) > > 1. You need RELENG_7 from at least Mon Oct 20 11:15:57 2008 UTC > (the relevant MFC commits are: > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=183819 > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184075 > - a recent HEAD should also work of course.) There are linprocfs patches > for RELENG_6 too (merging the former commit), but the latter commit can't > be merged to 6 (and 7.0) since they lack the cpuset bits, so flash9 > probably won't work on SMP there. (Although if you have SMP you probably > should be running 7 anyway. :) Oh and if you do have SMP you also need to > use the ULE scheduler, the cpuset syscalls are not supported with 4BSD. > linprocfs patches for 6: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.3.patch > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.4.patch > > 2. Your portstree needs to be from at least Sun Oct 19 17:37:28 2008 UTC > (the last www/linux-flashplugin9 commit is: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2008-October/158404.html > ) > > 3. Make sure linprocfs is mounted to /compat/linux/proc . the linux-firefox script should check for /proc being mounted. It's not a hard thing to do... any takers? :)
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