Re: amd64 kernel, i386 userland

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:

> Oh, I forgot to address the issue of booting without "options 
> MAGICLINKS" in the kernel.  No matter how early in /etc/rc you try 
> to put the "sysctl -w vfs.generic.magiclinks=1" command, init(8) 
> will want to open /dev/console earlier than that.  So you either 
> have to enable magiclinks in the kernel (so it's already enabled 
> before init(8) starts), or you have to arrange for /dev/console to 
> work even before magiclinks are enabled via the sysctl command.

But  it does: /dev/console (and all tty definitions) are the same on
i386 and amd64. 

Running a diff between i386 and amd64 MAKEDEV shows that there is little
difference.

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