The following reply was made to PR kern/37506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
To: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/37506: Have to hold power button for 5 seconds to turn off Laptop after "halt" command.
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:45:20 +0200

 On Sun Dec 09 2007 at 09:05:34 -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
 > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, grid@bmk.com.au wrote:
 > >>How-To-Repeat:
 > >1.) # halt
 > >2.) Wait for "The operating system has halted"
 > >3.) Press power button (no response)
 > >4.) Press and hold power button for 5 seconds (turns off)
 > 
 > This is expected behaviour.
 
 No, it's not.  The submitter clearly stated you don't get the delay with
 a non-acpi kernel.
 
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