The following reply was made to PR port-i386/11299; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, elad@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/11299 (PNPBIOS probe causes spontaneous reboots on
 Gateway E5200)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:12:38 -0400

 In message <20061007152610.97E5263BA0A@narn.NetBSD.org>, you write: 
 
 -> Synopsis: PNPBIOS probe causes spontaneous reboots on Gateway E5200
 -> 
 -> State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
 -> State-Changed-By: elad@netbsd.org
 -> State-Changed-When: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:26:09 +0000
 -> State-Changed-Why:
 -> mycroft implies it was fixed, feedback timeout (2+ years)
 
 FWIW, only the first part (the header file change and probably biostramp.bin
 too) was ever checked in, as I never got feedback on the goodness/badness of
 the PNPBIOS change from anyone.
 
 I still have the machine, but I'm not sure what the state of the NetBSD 
 installation on it is, or the state of the bug -- I think I simply gave
 up on PNPBIOS once the ACPI code got sane enough to be able to probe the
 built-in devices.
 
 I definitely don't have the time to backtrack almost 6 years, but thought
 I'd at least put a comment into the PR in case anyone else may care.
 
 --rafal