> 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).
Michael
