Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:16:09 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> To: brian@mpress.com Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options NOFPU Message-ID: <2472.854090169@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:43:56 PST." <19970123224357.1877.qmail@mpress.com>
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In message <19970123224357.1877.qmail@mpress.com>, brian@mediacity.com writes: >The following is a kludge: > >I made the enclosed changes to npx.c to force the npx driver >to fail to detect the FPU. This results in the kernel using >software FPU emulation, and the attached program no longer >freezes the system. > >For those interested, if you have an FPU the npx driver will >use it regardless of the GPL_MATH_EMULATE or MATH_EMULATE >options being present in your config. > This should be a flag to npx0 so it can be set in userconfig (boot -c) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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