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

[Warner Losh]

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

On 18/04/2023 21.46, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:02 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com
> <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     FreeBSD 13.0 has been released in April 2021:
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>     https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce/
>     <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce/>
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>     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.
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> 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.
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>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>>
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> Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com <mailto:imp@bsdimp.com>>
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>     ---
>       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?
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> 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