Subject: Re: Help me defend NetBSD's honor!
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/09/2003 11:46:25
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:57:59AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > Not even any need to do that -- we should simply create an option that
> > replaces the consinit() in init_main.c:main() with a call that
> > initializes the function pointers to dummys. Then it will be MI and
> > all ports can have the functionality.
>
> Maybe you haven't noticed, but machine-dependent code often likes to
> call consinit() much earlier than main() does.
So it seems (Quentin Garnier pointed this out earlier), though either
way I think the principle on how to fix this may be the same...
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com