Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

2024-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM Mario Marietto wrote: > Hello to everyone. > > I'm trying to copy the Chromebook's SNOW source files that have been included > on the FreeBSD 11 > revision 269385 to the new FreeBSD 13 revision 373300. It has compiled > correctly world,but when it > starts to

Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

2024-01-17 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello to everyone. I'm trying to copy the Chromebook's SNOW source files that have been included on the FreeBSD 11 revision 269385 to the new FreeBSD 13 revision 373300. It has compiled correctly world,but when it starts to compile the kernel,it gives a lot of "unknown option" errors. Is there a

Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

2024-01-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
Old packages are not retained after EOL, but ports are version agnostic (more or less, as the current ports tree is only ar tested to run on supported versions and some are marked as "BROKEN" for some versions). All ports are available from the GIT repo (cgit.freebsd.org). On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at

Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

2024-01-15 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello. Do you have deleted forever the set of packages and ports for FreeBSD 11 or you keep them stored in DVDs that I can buy or download for a small amount of money ? If yes,where ? To rebuild everything is out of my expertise. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 7:15 PM David Chisnall wrote: > On 15

Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

2024-01-15 Thread David Chisnall
On 15 Jan 2024, at 16:46, Mario Marietto wrote: > > The ARM Chromebook is based on armv7,it is still recent. For reference, the ARMv7 architecture was introduced in 2005. The last cores that implemented the architecture were released in 2014. This is not a ‘recent’ architecture, it’s one

Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

2024-01-15 Thread Mario Marietto
The ARM Chromebook is based on armv7,it is still recent. But let's change perspective for a moment,don't think about the ARM Chromebook. My question is : how to upgrade FreeBSD when it goes EOL. I ask this because there is a huge difference here between FreeBSD and Linux. Today if you need to use

Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

2024-01-15 Thread John F Carr
Judging by a commit message BSD on the ARM Chromebook didn't work when support was removed in 2019. >RK* Exynos* and Meson*/Odroid* don't even work with current >source code, if someone wants to make them work again they >better use the Linux DTS.