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[Xerxes Rånby <xerxes@xxxxxxxxx>]

2013-09-24 14:12, Gordan Bobic skrev:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:04:49 +0200, Xerxes Rånby <xerxes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2013-09-24 13:58, Nicolás Wolovick skrev:
>>> I used to have this file, but I cannot find it anymore, sorry.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I seem to recall that in the dim and distant past
>>>     there was a soft-float version of libflashplayer.so
>>>     from an ancient android port floating around.
>>>
>>>     Unfortunately, I can no longer find it. the oldest
>>>     version I can find, including the ones in the archives
>>>     on the Adobe site, all seem to be hard-float,
>>>     according to readelf -A (HardFP tag for SP and DP
>>>     appears to be present).
>>>
>>>     Unfortunately, I am running a soft-float distro on
>>>     my AC100. Could anyone point me in the direction of
>>>     where I might acquire a soft-float libflashplayer.so?
>>>
>>>     I am quite certain I had it running on my AC100
>>>     a long time ago, but since then I did a clean
>>>     reinstall and lost the plugin.
>>>
>>>     Gordan
>>
>>
>> The use the kotelett.no/ac100/phh/Android2.2/libflashplayer.so copy
>> stored by archive.org
>>
>> sudo wget -O /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20120504024509/http://kotelett.no/ac100/phh/Android2.2/libflashplayer.so
> 
> I hadn't thought of archive.org. Nice one. :)
> 
> Unfortunately:
> # readelf -A libflashplayer.so
> Attribute Section: aeabi
> File Attributes
>   Tag_CPU_name: "7-A"
>   Tag_CPU_arch: v7
>   Tag_CPU_arch_profile: Application
>   Tag_ARM_ISA_use: Yes
>   Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-2
>   Tag_VFP_arch: VFPv3-D16
>   Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t: 4
>   Tag_ABI_FP_denormal: Needed
>   Tag_ABI_FP_exceptions: Needed
>   Tag_ABI_FP_number_model: IEEE 754
>   Tag_ABI_align8_needed: Yes
>   Tag_ABI_enum_size: int
>   Tag_ABI_HardFP_use: SP and DP
>   Tag_ABI_optimization_goals: Aggressive Speed
> 
> Unless I am wrong:
> Tag_ABI_HardFP_use: SP and DP
> implies a hard-float binary, does it not?

Actually this indicate --with-float=softfp that is soft float with vfp optimizations
http://crux-arm.nu/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=3
Thus this is a ARM soft-float ABI file with VFP optimization.

for hard-float --with-float=hard you should see
Tag_ABI_VFP_args: VFP registers
as well

> 
> Wasn't there a libflashplayer.so once upon a time
> that ran (even if poorly) on armv5tel and armv6l?
> 
> Gordan

There is also the ubuntu browser-plugin-gnash package that you may use.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Cheers
Xerxes