The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/34585; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-sparc-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-sparc/34585: Weird behaviour of BLINK option
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:53:18 +0200

 On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:35:00PM +0000, Andreas Wiese wrote:
 > >Description:
 > 
 > I just got my SPARCstation 20 running with NetBSD/sparc and enabled the
 > BLINK option in kernel config. =20
 > 
 > But IMHO the behaviour isn't very intuitive.  Wouldn't it be better
 > instead of making the load average equivalent to the LED's blink cycle,
 > making it the blink frequency, i.e. higher load leads to a higher rate?
 > 
 > I discussed this with some guy of the BSD-Crew resp. the Chaos Computer
 > Club Dresden, and he looks at this the same way.
 
 I find it quite intuitive: the slower the computer is, the slower it blinks.
 
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