The following reply was made to PR port-i386/37637; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernd Ernesti <pr200709@veego.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/37637: MP kernel hangs before starting init
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:24:12 +0100

 On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:00:07AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
 >  On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:55:02AM +0000, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
 [..]
 
 >  >  Booting without -v seems to work, but fails when I try to reboot via
 >  
 >  So, the system does boot without -v?
 
 Yes, maybe because all the printf at the serial console doesn't happen at this
 point.
 
 >  >  shutdown -r now:
 >  >  
 >  >  Kernel lock error: _kernel_lock: spinout
 >  
 >  That will be the changes to suspend on MP systems. I will fix it when I get
 >  time.
 
 Ok.
 
 My main reason to test MP was to check if kern/36505 (java on a MP system) works
 now, but it still fails.
 
 Bernd