From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 23:41:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA04961 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 23:41:45 -0800 Received: from onyx.southwind.net (root@onyx.southwind.net [204.95.83.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA04956 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 23:41:43 -0800 Received: (from Ucomplet@localhost) by onyx.southwind.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id BAA19820; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:16:19 -0600 Received: (from jgoerzen@localhost) by complete.org (8.7.2/8.7.2) id JAA06561; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 09:08:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 09:08:22 -0600 (CST) From: John Goerzen To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , mark.walters@admin.ox.ac.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0 kernel compilation error? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Goerzen, programmer and owner | MICRO$oft only exists because some Communications Centre & Complete BBS | people are too dumb to get something E-mail jgoerzen@complete.org | better, such as FreeBSD. On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > npx is not optional.. > > device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr > > 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? It seems to me that it is required; otherwise I get a compile or link-time error (I can't remember which, probably link). However, in the handbook that comes with 2.1.0 it says: "npx0 is the interface to the math coprocessor . . . If you do not have a math coprocessor, you can comment this out." That info in the handbook is incorrect. -- John Goerzen