Subject: Re: Install an 881 in a FPU-less 3/50.
To: Gordon Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Aleksandr Milewski <n6mod@rahul.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/21/1995 23:35:36
>That's all.  Just put the chip in (if you want it).
>However, you can run NetBSD just fine without the FPU.
>All you have to do is build a kernel without FPCOPROC
>defined, or patch the variable fpu_type to zero during
>kernel startup.  (Someday, an FPU probe will do that.)
>

Somehow, the notion got planted in my brain that the FPU was required. (Is
it required for the Mac Port?)

Thanks for the help.

-Zandr