Re: allocating memory during kernel startup

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

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Hello,

On May 7, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:05:30PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> > kernel output anyway. All it needs is a sane way to decide wether it
> > can allocate memory or not.
>
> So split init in a minimal (optional) version called from the consinit
> functions, and a full grown init called at driver attach time (and  
> have the
> latter skip the parts already done by the first if it ran already).

Well, I already have a flag that skips the non-essential, memory- 
allocating part.
The question was for a way for rasops itself to know if it can do it  
instead of depending on the caller.

have fun
Michael

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