Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13829; Sat, 2 Dec 95 05:00:44 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11497; Sat, 2 Dec 95 04:59:40 EST Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA19378 ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:32:49 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA19151 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:30:31 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA19146 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:30:27 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA02075; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:26:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512011926.MAA02075@phaeton.artisoft.com> 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 465 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.