On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:20:46 +0200 Riccardo Berto riccardobrt@gmail.com wrote:
ok lol
thanks for the explanation btw I think that with battery on it and connected to AC you can use a laptop safely (with battery you avoid instant shutdowns)
no that problem is not the supply of power (that is actually a plus for laptops compared to desktops without an UPS), but the internal workings of most laptops. they include a chip called embedded controller that runs its own software and controls things like the backlight of the display or charging the battery. the problem is that these chips are often near the flash chip logically and flashrom sometimes irritates them enough that they just shut down the whole machine. the main reason why this can happen is that they are not documented publicly at all, see also http://flashrom.org/Laptops
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Stefan Tauner