From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 12:53:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA18333 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 12:53:15 -0800 Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA18292 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 12:53:08 -0800 Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.1/8.7.1) id PAA01489; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 15:51:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 15:51:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Terry Lambert cc: Julian Elischer , mark.walters@admin.ox.ac.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0 kernel compilation error? In-Reply-To: <199512011926.MAA02075@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > 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. > I would have to agree with Terry on this one...is npx the only thing that is in GENERIC that is not optional? And, since it isn't optional, why is it in there anyway? Or are there circumstances where you would have to change the irq? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc