Re: One more patch for Alpha console issues...

From: Peter Grehan <grehan_at_freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:47:19 +1000 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:45 UTC

>> 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.