[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Jerry]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:38:44 +0000, Lorenzo Salvadore via
freebsd-questions stated:
>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>On Friday 21 February 2020 19:22, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:36:28 +0000, Lorenzo Salvadore via
>> freebsd-questions stated:
>>  
>> > If someone wants to test it we have a patch to update
>> > nvidia-driver to latest version:
>> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242177
>> > Lorenzo Salvadore  
>>
>> I use poudriere to build my ports. I'll have to download the diff,
>> patch the port and then build and test it. I am assuming (potential
>> serious mistake) that you have actually tested this yourself. Has the
>> port maintainer, "danfe at FreeBSD.org" shown any interest in the
>> patch?  
>
>I could only verify that the port builds and installs successfully,
>but I do not have an nvidia card.
>I only know what is in the bug report, so I guess danfe@ could not
>look at it yet. I CC him in this mail, maybe he is busy, he lost track
>of this bug and this mail could help.
>Otherwise, sooner or later, we will declare maintainer timeout and
>deal with the PR. Still, if someone with a nvidia card could confirm
>that the patch works it would be great.
>
>Lorenzo Salvadore

I just read Alex S <iwtcex at gmail.com> comment on the patch
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242177>.

I am willing to give it a try once everyone agrees that the patch is
sound. I am running FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p6 64bit, mainly because the
12.x version of FBSD will not run on this machine.

-- 
Jerry
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