#12032 NORM Not Tri: XO-1.5s in critical low-battery conditions do not cleanly shutdown or restart

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#12032: XO-1.5s in critical low-battery conditions do not cleanly shutdown or
restart
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           Reporter:  greenfeld            |       Owner:  rsmith                           
               Type:  defect               |      Status:  closed                           
           Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
          Component:  embedded controller  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:  invalid              |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  no action            |    Verified:  0                                
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Comment(by rsmith):

 Replying to [comment:4 rsmith]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 greenfeld]:
 >
 > > I was under the impression the EC also had critical hard-poweroff code
 in case the code in Linux failed.  If this is not the case, then this
 ticket is invalid.
 >
 > It does.  But the EC can't make Linux do a clean shutdown. All it can do
 is power off the voltage regulators.

 On 1.75 we dealt with this by making the EC disable run-in discharge if
 the battery hits critical.  I should probably backport those changes into
 the 1.5 firmware.

 So rather than a hard power off it would sit there hung and the battery
 would charge back up.

 Would this be useful?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12032#comment:5>
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