Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus: Drop the CI job for compiling with FreeBSD 12

[Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>]

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 12:23 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 18/04/2023 21.46, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:02 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com
> > <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     FreeBSD 13.0 has been released in April 2021:
> >
> >     https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce/
> >     <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce/>
> >
> >     According to QEMU's support policy, we stop supporting the previous
> >     major release two years after the the new major release has been
> >     published. So we can stop testing FreeBSD 12 in our CI now.
> >
> >
> > 13.2 was just released this week, and the FreeBSD project will be
> > dropping support for 12 by the end of the year. 14.0 is up in late
> > string / early summer.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com <mailto:
> thuth@redhat.com>>
> >
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com <mailto:imp@bsdimp.com>>
> >
> >     ---
> >       We should likely also update tests/vm/freebsd ... however, FreeBSD
> 13
> >       seems not to use the serial console by default anymore, so I've got
> >       no clue how we could use their images now... Does anybody have any
> >       suggestions?
> >
> >
> > I should look at this... It should still be using serial console by
> default...
>
> I did some more tests ... looks like both
> FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2
> have serial (and ssh) disabled by default - but there is a
> FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-BASIC-CI.raw image now that has the serial
> console (and ssh) enabled by default, so I think we could use that one for
> our CI tests.
>

I'm surprised a little by this state and will see why and see if that can't
be fixed for 14.0.

Warner

  Thomas
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