all: drop support for FreeBSD 9 or below
This change drops the support for FreeBSD 9 or below and simplifies
platform-dependent code for the sake of maintenance.
Updates #7187.
Fixes #11412.
Updates #16064.
Updates #18854.
Fixes #19072.
Change-Id: I9129130aafbfc7d0d7e9b674b6fc6cb31b7381be
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/64910
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
diff --git a/doc/install.html b/doc/install.html
index 7f32f68..abf7fa6 100644
--- a/doc/install.html
+++ b/doc/install.html
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
<p>
<a href="https://golang.org/dl/" target="_blank">Official binary
-distributions</a> are available for the FreeBSD (release 8-STABLE and above),
+distributions</a> are available for the FreeBSD (release 10-STABLE and above),
Linux, Mac OS X (10.8 and above), and Windows operating systems and
the 32-bit (<code>386</code>) and 64-bit (<code>amd64</code>) x86 processor
architectures.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
<th align="center">Notes</th>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
-<tr><td>FreeBSD 9.3 or later</td> <td>amd64, 386</td> <td>Debian GNU/kFreeBSD not supported</td></tr>
+<tr><td>FreeBSD 10.3 or later</td> <td>amd64, 386</td> <td>Debian GNU/kFreeBSD not supported</td></tr>
<tr valign='top'><td>Linux 2.6.23 or later with glibc</td> <td>amd64, 386, arm, arm64,<br>s390x, ppc64le</td> <td>CentOS/RHEL 5.x not supported.<br>Install from source for other libc.</td></tr>
<tr><td>macOS 10.8 or later</td> <td>amd64</td> <td>use the clang or gcc<sup>†</sup> that comes with Xcode<sup>‡</sup> for <code>cgo</code> support</td></tr>
<tr><td>Windows XP SP2 or later</td> <td>amd64, 386</td> <td>use MinGW gcc<sup>†</sup>. No need for cygwin or msys.</td></tr>
