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Rearrangements needed for syscons(4) to be used as a console device

Description

Rearrangements needed for syscons(4) to be used as a console device
on architectures that need to call cninit() before the machine is
ready to support mutexes (required by make_dev()).

  • Remove make_dev() call from scinit() when flags indicate
	  unit is the system console, rely on sc_attach_unit() to
	  handle it.
  • When trying to access current screen's status (scr_stat
	  structure) use the static one provided for the initial
	  system console if no dev_t is available.
  • When calling make_dev() in sc_attach_unit() catch special
	  case of system's initial console and set up dev_t structure
	  to include pointer to console's scr_stat struct.

Reviewed by: marcel
Tested by: marcel, grehan (ppc), others on current@
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)

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Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>Authored on Apr 2 2004, 3:02 PM
Parents
rG0a25d7a9ea01: - Use "/bin/hostname" explicitly instead of "hostname".
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