Upgrading 11.3 -> 12.1 [was Re: Radeon 5770, graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod, and graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod]

[Scott Bennett]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:36 PM Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:
>
> > Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:05 AM Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 2020-04-13 14:06, Scott Bennett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > If I can ever get 12.1 to build on 11.3, I can upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > This is going out of the scope of the thread, but what is your problem
> > > > exactly?
> > > > I was able to build 12.1 on 11.3 on different boxes.
> > > >
> > >
> > > He doesn't have LLD or a newer binutils, so is hitting the test for that
> > in
> > > libc. Or we've got some kind of false positive.
> > >
> >      How new does binutils have to be?  The last time a portmaster -a run
> > updated it was on 25 February, though I have no idea when the time before
> > that might have been.  I.e., I can't say which version was installed by
> > 26 Nov. 2019.
> >
> That should be new enough, but you may need to turn the cross build knobs
> to build with 'external toolchain items'. Are you doing that? If not, then
> I'll look into which ones you need.
>
     Not that I know of.  That has not been the standard procedure for source-
based upgrades across major release changes as long as I've been a FreeBSD
user.
     While you're looking into that, would you please find out if there is
anything special I will need to do about the boot loader phases in upgrading?
Changes to the boot loaders caused me considerable grief a while back just
within 11-STABLE, and I'd like to be better prepared, rather than run into
similar problems again.

					Scott