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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: 80387 hangs system at divide by zero
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>In the newsgroups and it makes us look bad.  I would be much happier
>if one of the core people who actually know about this kind of stuff
>(and there are a few of you who do - no use trying to hide! ;) were to
>take it on as a personal mission to bring Linux's compatability hacks
>to FreeBSD, perhaps placing them in a lead-lined directory in our

I need interrupts enabled at probe time to use the Linux hack.  I've
been waiting for this for 2.5 years.  npx.c already has about 5 times
as much code as Linux to handle i387 hardware bugs.  It needs to have
more because of the missing interrupts and other complications in our
environment (such as paging the FPU state instead of keeping it in the
process table).  It has more than necessary because minimal fixes are
too hard to test.

Bruce