When this panic will be fixed?

When FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE had been released I tried to install it from
floppies. I got system panic and then reported this problem into
freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org mailing list. You can find this report in
http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg08385.html or in
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=297316+0+archive/2003/freebsd-stable/20030126.freebsd-stable
This is definitely not a hardware problem. Any Windows and FreeBSD 4.x
works fine here. Actually FreeBSD 4.x works not so fine but it works;
look at following chunk of FreeBSD 4.7 boot log:

isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
ed0: <ISA PLUG & PLAY  Ethernet Card> at port 0x200-0x21f irq 5 on isa0
bpf: ed0 attached
ed0: address 00:00:21:82:25:03, type NE2000 (16 bit) 
sbc0: <Creative ViBRA16X> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x300-0x301,0x388-0x38b
irq 10 drq 0,1 on isa0
sbc0: setting card to irq 10, drq 0, 1
pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.16 (ViBRA16X)> on sbc0
pcm0: sndbuf_setmap a000, 1000; 0xcc20d000 -> a000
pcm0: sndbuf_setmap b000, 1000; 0xcc20e000 -> b000
unknown: <Game> can't assign resources
unknown: <Game> at port 0x20f on isa0

I configured the BIOS with "PnP OS = No" option, so the BIOS configures
all my PnP devices before even MBR is loading. This is how the BIOS
configures my PnP devices:
NIC:  irq = 10; ports range = 0x0240 - 0x025F
SB:   irq = 5; DMA = 0, 1; ports ranges = 0x0220 - 0x022F; 0x0300 -
0x0301; 0x0388 - 0x38B
Gameport(SB): ports range = 0x0201 - 0x0201

Compare it with my FreeBSD 4.7 boot log above and with my FreeBSD 5.0
boot log (can be found in
http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/zip00000.zip).
Windows (Win98) doesn't reconfigure PnP devices those were already
configured by BIOS. I think that FreeBSD should have the same
behaviour. At least FreeBSD 5.x will not panic when BIOS is configured
with "PnP OS = No" option.

The NIC is ISA PnP NE-12 card (NE2000 compatable) based on UMC UM9008/F
chip. The SB is ISA PnP Creative SoundBlaster 16 based on ViBRA-16
chip. The Gameport is part of the SB. There is no PCI cards.

I tried to install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE from floppies but got the same
panic. Set BIOS option "PnP OS = Yes" doesn't resolve FreeBSD 5.x
panic.
Are you going to fix this panic somewhen?

Thanks.

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