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doc: update minimum supported FreeBSD to 12.2
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FreeBSD 11 goes out of support on 2021-09-30.
FreeBSD 12.1 is not supported since 2021-01-31.

PR-URL: #40179
Refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_version_history#Version_history
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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| Windows | x86 (native) | >= Windows 8.1/2012 R2 | Tier 1 (running) / Experimental (compiling) <sup>[6](#fn6)</sup> | |
| Windows | x64, x86 | Windows Server 2012 (not R2) | Experimental | |
| Windows | arm64 | >= Windows 10 | Tier 2 (compiling) / Experimental (running) | |
| macOS | x64 | >= 10.13 | Tier 1 | For notes about compilation see <sup>[8](#fn8)</sup> |
| macOS | x64 | >= 10.13 | Tier 1 | For notes about compilation see <sup>[7](#fn7)</sup> |
| macOS | arm64 | >= 11 | Tier 1 | |
| SmartOS | x64 | >= 18 | Tier 2 | |
| AIX | ppc64be >=power7 | >= 7.2 TL04 | Tier 2 | |
| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 11 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 <sup>[7](#fn7)</sup> |
| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 12.2 | Experimental | |

<em id="fn1">1</em>: GCC 8 is not provided on the base platform. Users will
need the
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Furthermore, compiling on x86 Windows is Experimental and
may not be possible.

<em id="fn7">7</em>: The default FreeBSD 12.0 compiler is Clang 6.0.1, but
FreeBSD 12.1 upgrades to 8.0.1. Other Clang/LLVM versions are available
via the system's package manager, including Clang 9.0.

<em id="fn8">8</em>: Our macOS x64 Binaries are compiled with 10.13 as a target.
<em id="fn7">7</em>: Our macOS x64 Binaries are compiled with 10.13 as a target.
However there is no guarantee compiling on 10.13 will work as Xcode11 is
required to compile.

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