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On 01/06/15 15:37, John Baldwin wrote:
> We need a lot more work before this is ready.  This is one of the goals
> of the multipass new-bus stuff.  In particular, we have to enumerate
> enough devices to bring event timer hardware up so that timer interrupts
> work so that tsleep() will actually sleep.  In addition, we also need
> idle threads created and working before APs are started as otherwise
> they will have no thread to run initially.  This is certainly a desired
> feature, but it is not as simple as moving the sysinit up I'm afraid.

Got it.

Thank you!

--HPS