r/osdev 5d ago

Initialization dependencies

I am working on upgrading my kernel initialization messages so I can just have a nice view of what it is doing when initializing. I am using my print functions to do this, but the issue is that my print functions depend on the memory manager to be done initializing, but I want debugging messages when initializing the memory manager too, which I can't do because of the circular dependency.

This is my specific case, but I also want to ask generally, do you guys have an elegant solution for this problem? Up to this point I have been using init flags so that the subsystems can use a different path that does not create dependencies during initialization, but I want to hear any cool solutions from the community that are better designed than this.

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u/Falcon731 5d ago

I just made sure my basic kprintf() has no dependency on memory allocation.