On 12.02.2008 18:55, ron minnich wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 8:44 AM, bari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Last time I checked all Lithium batteries had protection circuitry built >> into the pack to prevent any runaway conditions in the laptop charging >> circuits. The protection circuits override anything the laptop can throw >> at it short of a lightning bolt or exploding hard drives. >> > > Yeah, that was the expected case. I don't know what the Intel person > was claiming, but I hope it is wrong. Well, it is wrong :-) >
If you control the embedded controller in charge of charging (sorry about the puns), you probably can fry a battery to the point where it starts burning. IIRC the OLPC EC code once had such problems. Then again, having a chipset spec will not help you at all when you try to mess with the EC. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
