Marvell Kirkwood - anyone?

[Balanga Bar]

Do you have build instructions for building 8.2? It seems that the
instructions in, for example, https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDMarvell  are
not easily reproduced....

What target should I use? I presume DOCKSTAR was not available at the
time...

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:23 PM Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>