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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem building a new kernel
To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 22:14:19 -0700 (MST)
Cc: scg@lawtech.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960105181344.250A-100000@ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov> from "Donald Burr" at Jan 5, 96 06:24:42 pm
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> b) munge up the source code so that, if npx0 is commented out, it'll 
> still work (and refer to the software emulator?)

This is easy.

1)	Remove references to a defined NPX variable.  Treat
	#ifdef'ed code as if it were defined to be 1.

2)	Remove the line from the config file

3)	In /sys/i386/conf/files.i386, change:

i386/isa/npx.c			optional	npx	device-driver

	to:

i386/isa/npx.c			standard

Then the problem will never happen again.

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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