Re: ALPHA3 niggles

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:10:18 +1000
Brian Scott <bscott_at_bunyatech.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just a couple of small observations with 12.0-ALPHA3 from testing on a
> Raspberry-Pi 3:
> 
> *    The boot loader (I presume the new LUA based one) is sending escape
> sequences to the screen to format up a boot menu. The screen doesn't
> recognise them and shows a series of ^[ style sequences instead.

 If it's stuff like that :
https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/RPI2-HDMI.jpg it's known, we should
remove the beastie menu from the image I think

> *    The timeout countdown of the boot loader has reverted to very slow.
> The loader did this earlier in the year on -CURRENT but had obviously
> been fixed for a few months now. Maybe some change needs to be adapted
> from the old to the new loader.

 I don't have this problem on my RPI3B+ with latest ALPHA snapshot.
 The patch is still in the u-boot-rpi3 port
(https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/u-boot-rpi3/files/patch-lib_efi__loader_efi__console.c?revision=468630&view=markup)
so I don't know what going on for you.

> *    The root user on the image doesn't have a .login file.

 The users are added with pw directly (iirc) and the /etc/skel content
isn't copied in their home directory, that's something we should change
for 13 and mfc back for 12.1

> I realise these are all cosmetic issues in the overall scheme of things
> but if anyone is working on a bit of spit-and-polish for the new release
> they might want to have a look at a few of these.
> 
> Otherwise I'm happy to say that I haven't found any significant problems
> yet. I'll keep looking though.
> 
> Keep up the good work,
> 
> Brian
> 
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