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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: eivind@nic.follonett.no, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Installation
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>> Add flags 0x1 to the device npx0.  This will turn of the optimized
>> pentium bcopy(), IIRC.
>
>However, it will also make config not accept your kernel description file -
>at least, this happened for a RELENG_2_2 build I attempted from the
>sourcetree as of Thursday early morning (4 AM) GMT.

That's probably because you added the flags in a non-syntactical place.
The syntax for `vector ...' is at best obscure.  I'm only sure that
putting `vector xxxintr' last works.  See LINT for a correct place to
put the npx0 flags.  See GENERIC in RELENG_2_2 for an incorrect place.

Bruce