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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: OK who broke the kernel..?
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>suddenly the system doesn't even get as far as the copyright message
>during boot.... 

Perhaps devfs depends on the cdevsw being initialized early.  Now it
isn't initialized for syscons/pcvt until after one of them is attached.

Bruce