In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Quoting John Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:10:11 -0700):
>
>>
>> [ On Monday, October 8, Scot Hetzel wrote: ]
>> > The port is not broken as the flash9 port is not compiled, it just
>> > installs the linux flash9 binary. What is broken is the linux
>> > emulation on FreeBSD < 7. Work is underway to improve the linux
>> > emulation in -CURRENT.
>> >
>> > I agree the port should be marked broken for OSVERSION < 7000xx, and
>> > compat.linux.osrelease = 2.4.2, as the flash9 plugin may require
>> > 2.6.16 linux emulation.
>>
>> Is there a handbook or wiki entry which would point one to the procedure for
>> "properly" moving from 2.4.2 to 2.6.16 emulation under -current? I believe I
>> saw some posts that 2.6.x would not be default for 7.0-RELEASE for whatever
>> technical reason.....
>
>% grep linux /etc/sysctl.conf
>compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
>
>Be warned, you may run into bugs (2.6 emulation has not as much
>widespread testing as 2.4). If you stumble upon problems have a look at
>the archive of emulation@ and search for your problem there. If you can
>not find it, tell emulation@ about your problem. Be prepared to do some
>guided debugging.
>
>> Can anybody report success on -current with 2.6.16 emulation with the flash9
>> plugin?
>
>No, there are bugs we didn't manage to track down yet (partly because of
>lack of time, partly because of the closed source nature of flash9,).
>If someone wants to help to track this down: install dtrace (I don't
>know where install instructions are; it's back from hibernation just
>recently), run flash9 and try to get a backtrace of a crash with
>dtrace. If someone manages to do this, post the backtrace to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Bye,
>Alexander.
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
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?
Just wondering...
Juergen
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