Re: allocating memory during kernel startup

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On May 7, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:15:55PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> > We get out of cold WAY later than that. In fact kmem is ready before
> > autoconfig starts and cold is only cleared after that.
>
> Realistically, besides all the problems we already solved by  
> rearranging
> intializiation order, it is only consinit(). So you just need to take
> care what you call from there (and maybe pass some flags).

I took the pass-some-flag approach for now but I don't really like it.

> Maybe rasops can do minimal configuration early and complete at  
> driver attach
> time?

It needs to know that it's doing a minimal attach if there is no way  
for itself to know wether it can do the real thing ( which leads us  
back to pass-some-flag )

have fun
Michael

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