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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
cc: gwk@cray.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org, nate@sneezy.sri.com, phk@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: 80387 hangs system at divide by zero 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 95 09:22:39 +1000."
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 19:16:06 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> 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

So what do we need to get this long-delayed functionality?  Anyone you
think could do it and should be prodded into doing so?  We're about to
seriously go head-to-head with Linux for "mindshare" in 2.1 (trust me,
folks, this is imminent :-) as we start playing dueling PR campaigns,
and I'd really rather not have magazines coming back at me with "Linux
worked in our testing lab - FreeBSD fell over" as I'm working overtime
to get them to publish articles about us.

Thanks!
					Jordan