Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/arm/iomd

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 14 February 2012 21:09, Michael <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:25:18 +0000
> Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 14 February 2012 13:11:34 Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>> > skrll@ wrote:
>> > > Module Name:      src
>> > > Committed By:     skrll
>> > > Date:             Tue Feb 14 13:04:52 UTC 2012
>> > >
>> > > Modified Files:
>> > >   src/sys/arch/arm/iomd: vidcvideo.c
>> > >
>> > > Log Message:
>> > > Pass RI_NO_AUTO to rasops_init so that rasops doesn't attempt to allocate
>> > > memory as we're too early in kernel startup for this.
>> >
>> > I always think we should make RI_NO_AUTO default and
>> > RI_AUTO should be optional, because too many MD drivers
>> > have been trapped by this silent panic...
>>
>> Can't argue with that.
>
> Yeah. I wish there was a way to know wether we can kmem_alloc() or not.

Surely it must be possible to be able to query the kmem subsystem for
whether its too soon for kmem_alloc()?