On 19 Dec 2001, jwbirdsa@picarefy.com wrote:
>    Has anybody noticed that (at least as of 1.5.1) NetBSD/i386 doesn't actually
> work on a 386 anymore? I've tried it on several now, with varying hardware
> and kernels, and I always get the same symptoms: it boots, but any attempt
> to look at kernel data structures (e.g. ps, top) returns garbage,
> frequently causing the program to coredump. One commonality is that none
> of the 386es tested had a 387, whereas all of the systems that worked
> (486 and higher) have a coprocessor onboard. But the kernels all had FP
> emulation configured in, supposedly...

1.5 -current is working fine for me on a 486SX (without a 487). Wasn't
there a bug with one of the releases (1.5.2 I think?) that had broken
floating-point emulation support?

Jared