On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:11:32PM -0400, Michael wrote:
It's rasops_reconfig(). It may want to autogenerate box drawing
characters, which needs to allocate memory, but it can happily live
without them and some ports ( macppc for example ) setup a rasops-
based console very early in the boot process. In this case
rasops_reconfig() should simply skip the character generating
process instead of something nasty like a panic to happen.
How much memory are talking about? If it is small, don't bother. If it
makes the difference between reaching init or not, you won't have much
fun with the system later anyway. If it is large, consider doing it
later e.g. when wscons is initialised and recompute until then.