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Heads-up: 64-bit x86 boot -v regression fixed

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:44:41 -0700
From: Dan Mick <dan dot mick at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot sfbay dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads-up: 64-bit x86 boot -v regression fixed

My putback of

6338634 pci config-space routines really need to be present early in base kernel

on Monday introduced a panic/reboot on 64-bit machines when booting with -v; the 
details are in the bugs I just put back.  But that regression is now fixed with 
the putback of

     6343446 Very early calls to cmn_err() can cause problems
     6343055 cpu_pri_data is not set until startup_init(); means amd64 can't 
splx() until then

Apologies if you tried to boot with -v and got a reset; the new code fixes that
issue, and makes it less likely that someone else will trip on it.

In summary: between Monday and today, boot -v on amd64 would reset the machine;
the workaround was not to use -v; now, the code will work with or without -v.