Are we ready for Native Flash?

[Garrett Cooper]

RW wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:45:43 -0700
> Kris Moore <kris at 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