/boot/loader.conf not being read on 11.x RPI2

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 09:27 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 11:47 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> >> re: FreeBSD dvl.int.unixathome.org 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r283896: Tue Jun  2 03:52:48 UTC 2015     root at releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/RPI2  arm
> >> 
> >> I'm finding that /boot/loader.conf is not read.
> >> 
> >> [root at dvl ~]# cat /boot/loader.conf
> >> legal.realtek.license_ack=1
> >> [root at dvl ~]#
> >> 
> >> I must do this at the boot prompt instead:
> >> 
> >> set legal.realtek.license_ack=1
> >> load urtwn-rtl8188eufw.ko
> >> boot
> >> 
> >> Know issue?  Anything I can help with?
> >> 
> >> I have the RPI2 with me at the BSDCan Dev Summit if someone wants access.
> >> 
> > 
> > It looks like we still don't enable the forth processing by default
> > (although it is compiled in by default).  That's probably a holdover
> > from the days when it would take 90-120 seconds to process all the
> > defaults stuff in forth mode on low-end arm boards.
> > 
> > You can enable it yourself using "cp loader.rc.sample loader.rc" in
> > the /boot directory.  Once you've done that it'll start reading your
> > loader.conf file.
> 
> Shouldn’t we fix that? Is there something real in the way of fixing it?
> 
> Warner


I think it may just be an oversight on my part, I should have followed
up the cleanup of defaults processing by enabling it.

-- Ian