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

[Warner Losh]

> 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

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