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>> 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.

  Agreed, but you're going to have to chainsaw syscons and come up
with an alternate for the SC_STAT macro which relies on having
an allocated dev_t.

later,

Peter.