Error messages in 15.0-CURRENT (n275524-8dc0889..)

2025-02-19 Thread Steven Harms (High-Security Mail)
Folks, I built a GENERIC kernel "hot off the presses" as of the commits cited above. I am surprised that I'm still getting error messages in dmesg​ about: - Firmware errors - i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin either (repeats) - drm

Quieter startup + working experience by overriding VT_CONSWINDOW (and consequences)

2025-02-18 Thread Steven Harms (High-Security Mail)
Greetings, As per previous thread, I am still interested in a quieter fbsd experience: ideally no kernel / rc output on startup and no console messages on default TTY after login. As I was trying to see if I could extend boot_mute, I came across another approach: - set the default console to

Re: Adjustments to userland for a quieter startup (RC system)

2025-02-04 Thread Steven Harms (High-Security Mail)
e: >> >>> Remember that quiet/silent != fast. You might as well ask for a "pretty" >>> splash screen instead of the dizzying text scroll. >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 12:05 Gleb Smirnoff < gleb...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Adjustments to userland for a quieter startup (RC system)

2025-02-02 Thread Steven Harms (High-Security Mail)
On Sunday, February 2nd, 2025 at 2:38 PM, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > One "black box" scenario that came to my mind we did not mention is > some embedded system that we really do not want to show anything OS > related just the final login prompt.. or was that the initial idea? That wasn't one of my mai

Re: Adjustments to userland for a quieter startup (RC system)

2025-02-02 Thread Steven Harms (High-Security Mail)
> Okay, I am sorry, I mixed the general idea with detailed PR that aims > just updating routing and devmatch parts with user selectable option > not changing a defaults, thus my previous remarks are invalid and > updated, I apologize! :-) A goal of this PR was to flush out dialogue around whether

Adjustments to userland for a quieter startup (RC system)

2025-02-01 Thread Steven Harms (High-Security Mail)
Greetings, I have created https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1582 in an effort to quiet down some of the chattiness of module linking and network diagnostics on startup. I'm used to working in a git-based workflow and saw no action on the PR, so I thought I would notify here. If that's