device npx <--- what for?

[Bill Moran]

"Jorge Mario G." <murcielako at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi there
> I'm using freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE
> 
> I compiled my kernel without ISA and FLOPPY because I
> dont have that hardware.
> but the kernel failed at 
> /../.../isa./npx_devclass and npx_XXXX
> 
> once I added ISA and Floppy all worked again
> 
> my questions is why do I need npx? and isa?

npx is the floating point math driver.  You either need it or software
emulation of an FPU.

You need isa because npx depends on it.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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