On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:22:30PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Hi folks...
> 
> I'd like to make the following trivial change to main() to call configure()
> a bit later:
> 
> Index: init_main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/kern/init_main.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.155
> diff -c -r1.155 init_main.c
> *** init_main.c	1999/09/15 18:10:34	1.155
> --- init_main.c	1999/09/15 22:13:43
> ***************
> *** 209,220 ****
>   	/* Initialize sockets. */
>   	soinit();
>   
> ! 	disk_init();		/* must come before autoconfiguration */
> ! 	tty_init();		/* initialise tty list */
>   #if NRND > 0
> ! 	rnd_init();
>   #endif
> - 	configure();		/* configure the hardware */
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Initialize process and pgrp structures.
> --- 209,222 ----
>   	/* Initialize sockets. */
>   	soinit();
>   
> ! 	/*
> ! 	 * The following 3 things must be done before autoconfiguration.
> ! 	 */
> ! 	disk_init();		/* initialize disk list */
> ! 	tty_init();		/* initialize tty list */
>   #if NRND > 0
> ! 	rnd_init();		/* initialize RNG */
>   #endif
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Initialize process and pgrp structures.
> ***************
> *** 320,325 ****
> --- 322,330 ----
>   
>   	/* Start real time and statistics clocks. */
>   	initclocks();
> + 
> + 	/* Configure the system hardware.  This will enable interrupts. */
> + 	configure();
>   
>   #ifdef SYSVSHM
>   	/* Initialize System V style shared memory. */
> 
> ...essentially, this allows autoconfiguration to run in a valid thread
> context.
> 
> Objections?

I don't remember... where are the battery backed clocks read?
After autoconfiguration? 
	-is

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