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<br><br><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> From: jonathan@jonmasters.org</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:16:20 -0500</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> Subject: Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> CC: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> </font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> </font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> > This solution could be reverting the problem causing glibc change, or</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> > maybe changing it to do forward memcpy's while still using the new SSE</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">> > instructions, or something more specific to the flash plugin, as long</font><br><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">> > as it will automatically fix things with a yum upgrade without requiring<br>> > any further user intervention.<br>> > <br>> > I would also like to point out that if this were to happen in Ubuntu<br>> > which we sometimes look at jealously for getting more attention / users<br>> > then us, the glibc change would likely be reverted immediately, as that<br>> > is the right thing to do from an end user pov.<br>> > <br>> > I've filed a ticket for FESCo to look into this, as I believe this<br>> > makes us look really bad, and the glibc maintainers do not seem to be<br>> > willing to fix it without some sort of intervention:<br>> > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/501<br><br><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 191); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: auto; line-height: normal; text-align: left; width: auto; direction: ltr; z-index: 99995; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">Isn't only 64-bit preview release affected?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">from adobe's website...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">>>We have made this preview available so that users can test existing content and new platforms for compatibility and stability. Because this is a preview version of Flash Player, we don’t expect it >>to be as stable as a final release version of Flash Player. Use caution when installing Flash Player "Square" on production machines.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">If they don't expect it to work properly why should we?</span></div><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 191); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: auto; line-height: normal; text-align: left; width: auto; direction: ltr; z-index: 99995; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></div> </body>
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