doc: documenting a bit more FreeBSD case

FreeBSD provides more up to date compilers than
the one provided by the system.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/30325
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ platforms. This is true regardless of entries in the table below.
| macOS | x64 | >= 10.11 | Tier 1 | |
| SmartOS | x64 | >= 18 | Tier 2 | |
| AIX | ppc64be >=power7 | >= 7.2 TL02 | Tier 2 | |
| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 11 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 |
| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 11 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 <sup>[7](#fn7)</sup> |
<em id="fn1">1</em>: GCC 6 is not provided on the base platform, users will
need the
@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ are provided. However, tests in our infrastructure only run on WoW64.
Furthermore, compiling on x86 Windows is currently considered 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 provided
via the system's package manager, including Clang 9.0.
### Supported toolchains
Depending on the host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary.