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To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
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> > 7)  Do *not* delete the math device from your kernel and ask about
> >     it on -questions.
> > 
> >     Well, it was a thought. :-)
> > 
> >     -Dave Andersen
> 
> Argh!  And to think that was probably my fault for saying it wasn't needed
> if you didn't have a hardware FPU in Chapter 5 of the FreeBSD Handbook
> (which thankfully has been corrected for many months on the Web page and
> in -current, but still lurks on the 2.1.0-RELEASE CD)..  :-(

Actually, it's the fault of having an option for a non-optional kernel
component.  The whole idea is inherently bogus.

The fix needs to go into the config code and the default config files


---
  i386/isa/ncr5380.c		optional	nca	device-driver
! i386/isa/npx.c		optional	npx	device-driver
  i386/isa/pcaudio.c		optional	pca	device-driver
---
  i386/isa/ncr5380.c		optional	nca	device-driver
! i386/isa/npx.c		standard	npx	device-driver
  i386/isa/pcaudio.c		optional	pca	device-driver
---


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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