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From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Peter Grehan <grehan@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.

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