From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Aug 29 02:52:06 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D1A109F14D for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 02:52:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bscott@bunyatech.com.au) Received: from ppp150-101-221-139.static.internode.on.net (2001-44b8-4170-0a00-0000-0000-0000-0002.static.ipv6.internode.on.net [IPv6:2001:44b8:4170:a00::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "150.101.221.139", Issuer "Bunya Technology Certification Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12B3E7876D for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 02:52:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bscott@bunyatech.com.au) X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Received: from DHCP.tawonga.bunyatech.com.au (DHCP.tawonga.bunyatech.com.au [10.0.1.78] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by cope.tawonga.bunyatech.com.au (8.15.2/8.15.2/MSA) with ESMTPSA id w7T2pwFL009270 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:51:58 +1000 (AEST) (envelope-from bscott@bunyatech.com.au) Subject: Re: ALPHA3 niggles To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <57c1f73d-c9b3-77bb-2c81-14fd06ab58da@bunyatech.com.au> <20180828154533.2a3bcc252468ffecf210dcba@bidouilliste.com> From: Brian Scott Message-ID: <0a06ed07-1f34-e7c3-0825-c32c1232843b@bunyatech.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:51:58 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180828154533.2a3bcc252468ffecf210dcba@bidouilliste.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 02:52:06 -0000 On 28/8/18 11:45 pm, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:10:18 +1000 > Brian Scott 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 Very similar: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0w4buscnk2ec7ez/2018-08-29%2011.56.51.jpg?dl=0 This is using an HDMI attached monitor. I disconnected the serial console adapter last week and so haven't seen what it looks like over that. I'm a bit of a fan of the beastie menu as a general rule so it would be sad to lose it. Still, if the EFI console can't handle the instructions I'm thinking that some simplified version of menu would have to suffice. > >> *    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. One second on the timer takes about 5 seconds of wall clock time. As I said, it had been good for a few months now but was slow earlier in the year. This is the freebsd loader not u-boot unless I completely misunderstand the booting process (also possible), although I suppose u-boot is still providing the console services. The u-boot countdown timer appears to move quickly enough that I haven't really paid any attention to it. > >> *    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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Cheers, Brian