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

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 10:54 PM Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I'm trying to understand why this upgrade isn't working for you. It should
be a no brainer easy thing based on what I know. The fact that it's not
means there is something i don't know that's standing in the way. I'd like
to know what that is.

I'd also like to understand the boot loader thing better too. I didn't
think anything we'd merged was a huge hassle. Maybe the two are related.
Maybe there is some left over config that caused both? Maybe it's two
different things.

In either even, I'd like to understand...

Warner



>                                         Scott
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