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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:26:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
To:        JOHN <JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.Org
Subject:   Re: Help! My beautiful kernel won't compile! :(
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960102122452.1216A-100000@ncc-1701-d>
In-Reply-To: <01HZJ8GHWAEA8WWNVJ@POMONA.EDU>

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On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, JOHN wrote:

> And I have NO idea what the '_hw_float' might be referring to.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like you disabled the 'npx0' device in your kernel.  This device 
is REQURED, EVEN IF YOU HAVE A HARDWARE FPU OR NOT.  This is because the 
'npx0' device is the INTERFACE to the floating point thingie -- whether 
that be a hardware unit, or a software emulation widget.

The proper line to add is:

device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr

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