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Subject: Re: kernel_compile_problem
To: js@ibbs.anaheim.ca.us (Jeff Stillinger)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 23:24:18 -0800 (PST)
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> 
you removed the entry in the config for npx

this is needed for software floating point as well as h/w floating
suport..
it is NOT OPTIONAL (as you discovered)


> Hi,
> 
> kernel at all.  What I am trying to accomplish is a smaller kernel
> without the "dead" code that never gets used.  I would also like to take
> advantage of my 387.
you need npx for this.. 
npx is the 387 driver

it also drives the 387 EMULATOR if you don't have a 387

> 
> # device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
  ^ see?