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Date:      Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:39:33 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: One more patch for Alpha console issues...
Message-ID:  <20040301063933.GA12001@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <4042C2CA.8020104@freebsd.org>
References:  <4042C2CA.8020104@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:57:46PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
> > Any further thoughts?
> 
>  The problem is that make_dev() calls devlock(), which requires
> curthread to be valid to take out a mutex.
> 
>  The fix is to put the hand-crafting of proc0, thread0 and pcpu
> data and mutex_init to be *before* the call to cninit(). This
> is why i386 works.

Not really. The fix is to not call make_dev() at all this early.
You want to call cninit() as early as possible. Delaying cninit()
is a work-around for broken console devices.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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