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

From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, grid@bmk.com.au
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/37506: Have to hold power button for 5 seconds to turn off Laptop after "halt" command.
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:05:51 -0800

 On Mar 27,  4:07am, "Jared D. McNeill" wrote:
 } 
 } From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
 } To: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
 } 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.
 
      Personally, I don't really care about this issue, but would it be
 possible to "shutdown" ACPI when the system is halted or tell the BIOS
 that we no longer wish to handle the power button?
 
 }-- End of excerpt from "Jared D. McNeill"