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

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
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 10:58:05 -0500 (EST)

 On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Antti Kantee wrote:
 > Then don't call it expected behaviour, call it an expected bug.
 
 The hardware is designed to work this way.
 
 Cheers,
 Jared