Re: allocating memory during kernel startup

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Michael wrote:

> In fact I did describe it in another mail.
> And the problem is that macppc sets up its console extremely early. If I move
> consinit() after uvm_init() then debugging uvm_init() problems becomes a lot
> harder and as I said before, the parts that need uvm to be up and running are
> strictly optional, we only need to know wether we can use them or not.

You could also do what I did on sparc64: early on attach an OFW console 
and replace it with the real console during the device probe.

Eduardo