[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Jeremy Faulkner]

On 2020-02-19 1:06 p.m., Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:31:18 -0500, Ed Maste stated:
>> That's an unfortunate issue, but it's very hard to make progress
>> without getting an affected machine to an appropriate developer.
> 
> Personally, Ed, I think your suggestion is absurd.
> 
> Now, I find that FBSD 12.x will not even install and run on my PC. This
> cannot be because the technology is too new. 11.x runs just fine. This
> is obviously a problem with the programming. I have been told by you
> and others that they need a machine to work on to discover the problem.
> Seriously, that is BS. It worked before; they broke it when updating.
> If it had never worked, I might have considered donating a piece of
> equipment to assist them, but this is obviously not that sort of
> problem.
> 

An option other than getting an affected machine to a developer is for 
you to bisect the commits between the branch of 12-CURRENT and release 
of 12.0-RELEASE until you find the exact commit that broke the existing 
support. Then a developer would know where to start.

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Jeremy Faulkner