Sorry to go off-topic here, but this needs to be corrected.

There are only fourproblems I have EVER seen with 64-bit Linux.

1) Flash (the topic at hand)
2) Java (fixed now since one of the updates to version 6(can't recall which)
3) Some emulators.
4) OpenOffice.org. (Old issue, long since taken care of)

Flash we don't have source code for, so it can't be fixed by anyone except Adobe.

Java was fixed as stated from around 6u16 or 6u17, they added in 64bit java web start and java plugin.

Zsnes and gens only have 32-bit versions due to some of the emulator specific code not being 64-bit friendly.

OpenOffice didn't have a 64-bit native version, though that never really prevented the 32-bit version from not working.

Your issues sound more like FUD than anything. BD-RW 'drivers' ? Unless your BD-RW uses some weird non-standard drivers, it'll work. Since SATA and CD-ROM drivers have long since been standardized, I don't know why it wouldn't work. Yes Open Source software does support burning BDs, so if it's open source, it can more than likely be compiled for 64-bit.

All of the NICs I have ever seen or dealt with have drivers either included in the current or newer kernel, some few require firmwares, but none of them that I have seen are 32-bit only, so if it works in 32 bit, it'll work with 64-bit.

If you guys are having issues with 64-bit Linux having issues detecting NICs or BD-RWs, you should probably switch distributions (use something with a newer kernel. Hell even Debian Lenny had some issues with a bit of hardware I put on it where it wouldn't detect the NIC because the e1000 driver that was included with the kernel wasn't 'new' enough. Initially I compiled the driver myself, someone else had put in a bug report and Debian released a new kernel package with the newer driver and it worked out of the box for new installs)

Lesson here is, if you have a legitimate non-working device in 64-bit, but it works in 32-bit, submit a bug report. Driver wise, I have not seen any devices out there that are not supported under both. For that matter, I bet most of those same devices have working drivers under ARM, M68K, SPARC, etc.

The major exception of working drivers are probably NICs, though even broadcom supplies enough source code to be working under 64-bit, and they're the worse offenders.

slaapliedje

P.S. To go back on topic, give us Flash, you bastards!