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> As an experiment, I'll build a kernel without it and give it a try.
>

No go. A bunch of daemons failed saying stuff about "no floating" 
available or something. On my 486, the MATH_EMULATE is absolutely 
mandatory for running even the basic stuff.

Google told me 0xd9fa is the square root function. Looking in 
src/sys/arch/i386/i386/math_emulate.c, I do find a mention of this 
operation code, along with a bunch of others, leading to the "not 
implemented" message. Running a diff between the version in NetBSD-3.1 
(1.28) and the most recent CVS version (1.32) shows a bunch of changes, 
but nothing that would improve on my problem.

So I guess I'm on my own. I'm far from being a kernel developer, so 
I'm still open to other options, but upgrading the hardware is not one
of them ;-)

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Pierre Dubuc
pldubuc@yahoo.ca
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