The following reply was made to PR kern/37005; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon B <simonb@kaizo.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/37005: Kernel crash in -current (wrt screenblank)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:55:26 +0100

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 * Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca> scribbled on: [2007-09-20 19:00:08 +0000]:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/37005; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
 > 	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, simonb@kaizo.org
 > Subject: Re: kern/37005: Kernel crash in -current (wrt screenblank)
 > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:55:20 -0400 (EDT)
 > 
 >  On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Simon B wrote:
 >  > Yes I was.  Thanks for letting me know it's a known issue.
 >  
 >  It's not so much of an issue with vesafb, but instead the bioscall 
 >  interface -- it doesn't really work well when interrupts are enabled. It's 
 >  one of the many items on my TODO list to investigate...
 >  
 >  On a whim, do you happen to have ACPI enabled in your kernel? Can you try 
 >  a kernel without ACPI? I discovered an issue (fixed on a branch, not yet 
 >  merged with HEAD) where on i386, the acpi wakecode and i386 biostramp code 
 >  share the same page, which will cause all sorts of headaches...
 >  
 >  In other words, is it possible for you to try GENERIC.NOACPI ?
 
 Jared et al,
 
 Yep - that works fine.  Anything else you'd like me to try?
 
 S.
 
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