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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:04:40 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        eivind@nic.follonett.no, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970418150400.428C-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704181317.XAA14402@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >> Add flags 0x1 to the device npx0.  This will turn of the optimized
> >> pentium bcopy(), IIRC.
> >
> >However, it will also make config not accept your kernel description file -
> >at least, this happened for a RELENG_2_2 build I attempted from the
> >sourcetree as of Thursday early morning (4 AM) GMT.
> 
> That's probably because you added the flags in a non-syntactical place.
> The syntax for `vector ...' is at best obscure.  I'm only sure that
> putting `vector xxxintr' last works.  See LINT for a correct place to
> put the npx0 flags.  See GENERIC in RELENG_2_2 for an incorrect place.

Why on earth is there a vector keyword in the first place?  Why isn't the
interrupt picked up from the driver like all the other entry points?

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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