Re: allocating memory during kernel startup

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> > 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).

Some fb drivers (dev/pci/tga.c, dev/tc/sfb.c etc) have
a structure for rasops in softc.

For console it's statically allocated and initialized via consinit.
For non-console, it's allocated by malloc(9) and initialized
during device autoconf.
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Izumi Tsutsui