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From: "Colin Alston" <lists@karnaugh.za.net>
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Speaking of which

Why do we need ISA support to compile the kernel ?

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Colin Alston

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Cran" <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: "Eduardo Viruena Silva" <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: compiling kernel.


> On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 09:19:48AM -0500, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 May 2003, Mats wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
> > > #options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> > > #options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> > >
> > > # device isa
> > > # device eisa
> > > device pci
> > >
> > > # Floppy drives
> > > device fdc
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > you are using fdc and you are excluding  isa...
> > it wont work.   include
> >
> > device isa
>
>
> Doesn't the error message about 'npx' mean that the npx floating-point
> driver needs ISA support to work?
>
> Bruce Cran
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