device npx <--- what for?
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Aug 12 10:51:15 PDT 2004
"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
http://www.potentialtech.com
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