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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.0 kernel compilation error?
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:26:40 -0700 (MST)
Cc: mark.walters@admin.ox.ac.uk, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199512010017.QAA13030@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 30, 95 04:17:04 pm
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> > 
> Why does ewvery body assume the  h/w floating point doesn't require 
> a driver?
> 
> npx is not optional..
> put it back in!

Probably because there is a line that says:

device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr

That implies you are allowed to delete the line.

It's shouldn't be configurable at all.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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