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

[Mike Karels]

Ed Maste wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 12:48, Gerard E. Seibert
> <gerard_seibert at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> > Until they squash that bug, they should not be in a rush to push out
> > the door another defective model.

> Unfortunately complaining that there's a bug in 12.0 or 12.1 or
> providing additional reports of this will do nothing to help resolve
> the issue. I can suggest two ways folks can help get this resolved:
> build and test kernels (with guidance from interested developers) to
> bisect and identify the offending commit/test potential patches, or
> make a system available to willing developer(s).

In this case (a USB failure), I bisected the problem some months ago.
The offending commit was an ACPI update.  I have not yet "downgraded"
to 11.3, but I will when I have enough time.

		Mike