On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 23:48, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Well, this is different. > > > > The kernel continuously talks to the PMU. It happens asynchronously > > at interrupt time. If for some reason, that communication is stopped > > in the middle of a message transmission, the PMU times out and shuts > > the machine down, losing the time (I suspect it resets itself, and > > since it does the timekeeping as well...) > [...] > > That's unrelated to the battery problem. > > Right, I've had the time reset to silly things by kernel crashes before > (and that usually takes the PRAM settings with it). Can't such a PMU > reset also happen when the battery drains all the way to zero? (the > interrupt timeout being another problem, sure).
Yup. Basically, each time the PMU gets upset for some reason.. Ben.
