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To: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>
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Subject: Re: Do I need a 387 to install FreeBSD ?
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G'day Thierry,

no, as far as I know, you don't "need" a maths-co-pro (e.g. 387), but if
you don't, you then need to enable the Maths Emulation. Check in the
LINT file (typically /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT) for the section
MATH_EMULATE - here is the extract from mine (2.2.8-RELEASE)...

<snip>
#
# A math emulator is mandatory if you wish to run on hardware which
# does not have a floating-point processor.  Pick either the original,
# bogus (but freely-distributable) math emulator, or a much more
# fully-featured but GPL-licensed emulator taken from Linux.
#
options         MATH_EMULATE            #Support for x87 emulation
# Don't enable both of these in a real config.
options         GPL_MATH_EMULATE        #Support for x87 emulation via
                                        #new math emulator 
<snip>


FWIW, my 'GENERIC' has the line "options         MATH_EMULATE           
#Support for x87 emulation".

hth,

H


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