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authorkstailey <kstailey@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-04-21 15:40:23 +0000
committerkstailey <kstailey@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-04-21 15:40:23 +0000
commit91136ae65f8a274e3bd4580eea155ef3e91040e3 (patch)
treef347cf6b51ba435d2c7429ce0a2beba7478509ca /share/man
parent9da2f5d237a18601124e835d77f8d92aca980b94 (diff)
mention GPL_MATH_EMULATE
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.49
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4
index 38f258baed4..3ab5bc3c61c 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: npx.4,v 1.2 1996/08/08 17:11:27 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $Id: npx.4,v 1.3 1997/04/21 15:40:22 kstailey Exp $
.\"
.Dd August 6, 1993
.Dt NPX 4 i386
@@ -57,13 +57,14 @@ coprocessors. 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, the "MATH_EMULATE"
-option must be defined in the kernel configuration file.
-It will provide support for the instructions normally executed
+If there is no NPX present in the system, either the "MATH_EMULATE"
+option or the "GPL_MATH_EMULATE" must be defined in the kernel configuration
+file. It will provide support for the instructions normally executed
by the NPX. If there is no NPX in the system and the kernel
is not built with math emulation, the system will not boot.
.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