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authorJason Wright <jason@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-07-28 20:09:14 +0000
committerJason Wright <jason@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-07-28 20:09:14 +0000
commit6bb20d89bbb0730289d06ac09883d2d4e5e11604 (patch)
treea737598a732b7f756fe4457d2c04d70460d424da /share/man
parentdceff77af80a88410818aa562a15c306c430d675 (diff)
remove MATH_EMULATE stuff
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.48
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4
index d96d78288d4..b18b1da4dd9 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: npx.4,v 1.11 2002/10/15 11:59:02 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: npx.4,v 1.12 2003/07/28 20:09:13 jason Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
.Nm npx
.Nd Numeric Processing Extension coprocessor and emulator
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Cd "option MATH_EMULATE"
.Cd "option GPL_MATH_EMULATE"
.\" XXX this is awful hackery to get it to work right... -- cgd
.Cd "npx0 at isa? port" \&"IO_NPX0\&" irq 13
@@ -57,9 +56,7 @@ The
driver is required for proper system functioning regardless
of whether or not a NPX is present.
.Pp
-If there is no NPX present in the system, either
-.Ic option MATH_EMULATE
-or
+If there is no NPX present in the system
.Ic option GPL_MATH_EMULATE
must be defined in the kernel configuration file.
It will provide support for the instructions normally executed by the NPX.
@@ -70,7 +67,6 @@ is not built with math emulation, the system will not boot.
.Xr isa 4
.Sh CAVEATS
The emulator is much slower than the NPX coprocessor.
-(The GPLed version of the emulator is somewhat faster than the non-GPLed one.)
This will result in poor floating-point math performance
if the emulator must be used.
.Sh BUGS