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

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 09:34 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Cool! Did you want to fix this, or would you like me to?
> 
> Warner

Go for it... I'm still crazy-busy with $work until the end of this
month.

-- Ian