The following reply was made to PR kern/34648; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: elad@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/34648: Kernel panic when using NFS root and configuring an
 interface that needs firmware
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:14:50 +0900 (JST)

 > Hi,
 > 
 > I'm not sure that's the cause for this panic, but it's possible that
 > it happens because we pass FSCRED from firmware_open() which the NFS
 > code then tries to dereference.
 
 i think you're right.
 i have no idea why firmload uses FSCRED.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi