Re: allocating memory during kernel startup

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> > Well, kmem(9) is initialised very early, just after pool(9), in uvm_init
> > (), where I moved it couple years ago.  Yes, 'cold' is unset very late.
> > Since allocation gets postponed anyway, is that a problem?  You did not
> > describe your use case. :)
> 
> consinit(), run just before uvm_init().
> 
> It may need to initialize raspos, which will allocate memory for fonts,
> screens, ...

OK, that is something I am not familiar with.  Any reason why one could
not have rasops_sysinit() after uvm_init()?  I see consinit() as a bare
minimum to printf() very early errors (which should not happen, normally).

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Mindaugas