Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:42:34 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <d9fc0dbc-1ecf-6d0e-22c4-ac1f0b0af6e7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200219130628.457f8953@scorpio> References: <20200217231452.717FA1E820@freefall.freebsd.org> <CAFYkXjmZi1-MB6W0HsMx9gHek7Xg5heoSKKWkNTnw74dxRTwAw@mail.gmail.com> <85E7C97E-EF8B-4FC7-8EF1-758B7BCBAE90@kreme.com> <20200218183010.5a52441f.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAFYkXjm%2Bav5Ky5dVV9vuuSpW%2Bpw2AcpzhC1aWfHP=iKNmuWXVA@mail.gmail.com> <20200218205940.04917783.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200219052643.7bd90d3c@scorpio> <CAPyFy2CwY4t7Syf8oXtFPzWQqjdy9iY%2B1EkhZjuuoVzvW2sZGQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200219130628.457f8953@scorpio>
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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. -- Jeremy Faulkner
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