Re: port-i386/37982: i486DX system panics while probing for NPX on isa bus

[Jarle Greipsland <jarle%uninett.no@localhost>]

christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>  Try this:
>  Index: npx.c
>  ===================================================================
>  RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/npx.c,v
>  retrieving revision 1.125
>  diff -u -u -r1.125 npx.c
>  --- npx.c    20 Jan 2008 21:49:57 -0000      1.125
>  +++ npx.c    8 Feb 2008 17:44:14 -0000
>  @@ -273,7 +273,6 @@
>   
>       irqmask = i8259_setmask(irqmask);
>   
>  -    idt_vec_reserve(NRSVIDT + irq);
>       idt[NRSVIDT + irq] = save_idt_npxintr;
>   
>       idt[16] = save_idt_npxtrap;

That seems to have fixed the problem.  At least the system boots
ok now.  I don't know whether it will influence the behavior of
any floating point operations, but it's not as if this system is
doing significant scientific work anyway.

                                        -jarle