The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman at gmail.com>:

> On 10/18/07, Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> 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 :)
>

All I can say here is "me too" I only have 4 but they will get a workout.

Thanks,

ed