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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> > ! i386/isa/npx.c		standard	npx	device-driver

>I *did* do a submission about 4 months ago, but it was rejected on the
>basis that the NPX option was supposed to move to referring ONLY to the
>emulation seperate from intrinsic FPU support, so you could pull the
>emulator out without pulling out the emulator/FPU switch code (I
>believe Bruce was working on it).

Actually, npx should be entirely for the hardware so that you can disable
the hardware without breaking the emulator(s).

Bruce