Index: share/man/man9/Makefile
===================================================================
--- share/man/man9/Makefile
+++ share/man/man9/Makefile
@@ -1092,6 +1092,8 @@
 	getenv.9 getenv_quad.9 \
 	getenv.9 getenv_uint.9 \
 	getenv.9 getenv_ulong.9 \
+	getenv.9 getenv_is_true.9 \
+	getenv.9 getenv_is_false.9 \
 	getenv.9 kern_getenv.9 \
 	getenv.9 kern_setenv.9 \
 	getenv.9 kern_unsetenv.9 \
Index: share/man/man9/getenv.9
===================================================================
--- share/man/man9/getenv.9
+++ share/man/man9/getenv.9
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 1, 2017
+.Dd August 31, 2020
 .Dt GETENV 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 .Nm getenv_quad ,
 .Nm getenv_uint ,
 .Nm getenv_ulong ,
+.Nm getenv_is_true ,
+.Nm getenv_is_false ,
 .Nm kern_setenv ,
 .Nm testenv ,
 .Nm kern_unsetenv
@@ -62,6 +64,10 @@
 .Fn getenv_uint "const char *name" "unsigned int *data"
 .Ft int
 .Fn getenv_ulong "const char *name" "unsigned long *data"
+.Ft bool
+.Fn getenv_is_true "const char *name"
+.Ft bool
+.Fn getenv_is_false "const char *name"
 .Ft int
 .Fn kern_setenv "const char *name" "const char *value"
 .Ft int
@@ -194,6 +200,23 @@
 characters of its value are copied to the buffer pointed to by
 .Fa data
 followed by a null character and a non-zero value is returned.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn getenv_is_true
+and
+.Fn getenv_is_false
+functions are wrappers around
+.Fn kern_getenv
+that simplify the parsing of boolean values.
+The
+.Fn getenv_is_true
+function performs a case-insensitive comparison of the value of the kernel
+environment variable
+.Fa name
+to the strings "1" and "true".
+The
+.Fn getenv_is_false
+function works similarly for the values "0" and "false".
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 The
 .Fn kern_getenv
@@ -211,6 +234,7 @@
 .Fn testenv
 function returns zero if the specified environment variable does not exist and
 a non-zero value if it does exist.
+.Pp
 The
 .Fn getenv_int ,
 .Fn getenv_long ,
@@ -220,3 +244,14 @@
 and
 .Fn getenv_ulong
 functions return a non-zero value on success and zero on failure.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn getenv_is_true
+and
+.Fn getenv_is_false
+functions return
+.Dv true
+if the specified environment variable exists and its value matches the desired
+boolean condition, and
+.Dv false
+otherwise.
Index: sys/kern/kern_environment.c
===================================================================
--- sys/kern/kern_environment.c
+++ sys/kern/kern_environment.c
@@ -943,6 +943,46 @@
 	return (1);
 }
 
+bool
+getenv_is_true(const char *name)
+{
+	char *val;
+	bool ret;
+
+	if (name == NULL)
+		return (false);
+
+	ret = false;
+	val = kern_getenv(name);
+	if ((val != NULL) &&
+	    ((strcmp(val, "1") == 0) || (strcasecmp(val, "true") == 0))) {
+		ret = true;
+	}
+	freeenv(val);
+
+	return (ret);
+}
+
+bool
+getenv_is_false(const char *name)
+{
+	char *val;
+	bool ret;
+
+	if (name == NULL)
+		return (false);
+
+	ret = false;
+	val = kern_getenv(name);
+	if ((val != NULL) &&
+	    ((strcmp(val, "0") == 0) || (strcasecmp(val, "false") == 0))) {
+		ret = true;
+	}
+	freeenv(val);
+
+	return (ret);
+}
+
 /*
  * Find the next entry after the one which (cp) falls within, return a
  * pointer to its start or NULL if there are no more.
Index: sys/sys/systm.h
===================================================================
--- sys/sys/systm.h
+++ sys/sys/systm.h
@@ -463,6 +463,8 @@
 int	getenv_int64(const char *name, int64_t *data);
 int	getenv_uint64(const char *name, uint64_t *data);
 int	getenv_quad(const char *name, quad_t *data);
+bool	getenv_is_true(const char *name);
+bool	getenv_is_false(const char *name);
 int	kern_setenv(const char *name, const char *value);
 int	kern_unsetenv(const char *name);
 int	testenv(const char *name);