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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!pipex!sunic!news.tele.fi!news.funet.fi!news.eunet.fi!count From: count@snafu.muncca.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails on npx 387 Date: 5 Dec 1994 17:34:25 GMT Organization: Muncca UNIX (technical mismanagement) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3bviv1$28p@idefix.eunet.fi> References: <T54mwc2w165w@oasys.pc.my> <3brhji$apt@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: snafu.muncca.fi In article <3brhji$apt@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <T54mwc2w165w@oasys.pc.my>, >Othman bin Hj. Ahmad <othman@oasys.pc.my> wrote: >>I recalled that the FreeBSD 1.1.5 also had problems with some >>motherboards with 387. > >Hmm, never heard of any problems with FreeBSD and x87 chips of any >kinds. However, there *were* problems with the alternative FPU emulator >which required some kernel programs to be rebuilt due to some kernel >structures being aligned differently. Then you haven't been listening hard enough. I know that I've reported a few times that FreeBSD didn't work with my 386SX/ IIT 387SX combination. 1.0 didn't, 1.1 didn't, 1.1.5 didn't, 2.0-ALPHA didn't, don't know about 2.0-release because I junked that motherboard and bought a 486DX2/80. :) NetBSD didn't work either, but Linux did. -- Bror 'Count' Heinola # E-mail: # Network admin of muncca.fi Pengerkatu 13b A5 # count@snafu.muncca.fi # Count in IRC 00530 HELSINKI # count@key.hole.fi # "Is that lemon in your tea?" Tel: +358-0-766-041 # ...free your mind... # "No, s'lime."