On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Daniel Brown wrote:

> Dear folks,
> 
> Been busy the last little while having a bash at compiling my very own
> SA-aware kernel. The experience turned up a few things that I'm not
> certain about, so wanted to air publically, just in case I've done
> horrible things to the innards of the computer that'll come back to haunt
> me later.
> 
> Last night, I busily ftp'd the src-1.2A-111096.tar.gz from kcl, unpacked

  That's an old src. Get the whole source from netbsd.org and apply the 
fs patch (and the csc patch if you want cumana scsiII support). You will 
also need the new version of config on ftp.ph.kcl.ac.uk (This is the 
source of the ioconf.c errors)

  As to the fpe errors, I've never seen them!  (and I compiled a new 
kernel last night from fresh sources!)

   What settings to you have in your configuration file for FP support?
Mine are...

# FPA options
 
#options                FPE             # Single precision FPE
options         ARMFPE          # ARM Ltd FPE

> 
> Add these, recompile, and hey-presto. My first netbsd kernel :-)
> 

  Sounds very dodgy, I'd pull over a fresh source, apply the patches, and 
reconfigure with the new config. It should work first time!

Ale.