The following reply was made to PR port-i386/37502; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "De Zeurkous" <zeurkous@nichten.info>
To: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: RE: port-i386/37502
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:27:47 -0000 (UTC)

 On Fri, December 14, 2007 17:23, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > disabling it by default is not an option. A lot of newer hardware won't
 > run with a non-ACPI kernel,
 
 Nice. I have a lot of hardware here that won't run (nicely) /with/ an ACPI
 kernel :^)
 
 > and that's the reason it has been enabled by
 > default.
 
 How about the second option then? There's enough time to be wasted already
 in getting almost any new machine to work decently, and an extra build and
 a few megs more in the binary tree should be worth disabling something
 inherently broken.
 
 --De Zeurkous.