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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:23:52 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        eblood@winky.reno.nv.us (Eric Blood)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel compilation problem
Message-ID:  <199512192253.JAA10822@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199512191707.JAA15523@winky.reno.nv.us> from "Eric Blood" at Dec 19, 95 09:07:06 am

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Eric Blood stands accused of saying:
> 
> In message <199512191210.OAA02466@hornet.netac.co.za>you write:
> >> #device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
> 
> >This came up a while ago, and things were suggested from better
> >documentation in GENERIC to disabling the option.
> >
> >What was the descision there ? are we going to decument it, or leave
> >it outa the config file ?  (on another note : why is it in the config
> >file ? It's non-optional, so no-one should ever want to take it out.
> 
> I thought a software emulation could be dropped in its place in the
> case of people on 386s without math coprocessors.

This isn't software emulation; it's _HARDARE_SUPPORT_  Note the port, irq 
and vector values...

> Eric Blood

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