Marvell Kirkwood - anyone?

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 01:34 +0100, Balanga Bar wrote:
> To be honest, I would try installing 8.2 if I could find instructions
> for
> building it...
> 
> Would I need to install 8,2 on my PC to build 8.2 for FreeBSD/ARM?
> 
> 

It was somewhere around freebsd 10.1 that I lost the ability to build
freebsd 8.x (which had already been EOL for years at that point). 
Accumulated changes in the build system finally got to be too much.

Ever since then, I've used an amd64 jail running freebsd 8.4 as a build
environment for crossbuilding freebsd 8.2 for arm.  These days the jail
is hosted on a 12-stable system.  In jail.conf for that jail I have

    osrelease="8.4-STABLE";
    osreldate= 804507;

Note that running freebsd 8.2 on any public-facing machine on the
network may not be a good idea.  There have been very many critical
security fixes to the base OS since then.  At $work, we selectively
cherry-pick security changes into our local 8.2 repo, and also our
products tend to be used on private networks protected by firewalls.

-- Ian