[flashrom] EC kernel interface - kernel feature request [draft]

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> [110423 15:53]:
> to put this into some perspective...
> we (mainly twice11, xvilka, me) were discussing "the" major
> architectural problem of flashrom's internal programmer on irc: doing
> delicate stuff in user space without kernel support.
> 
> we came to the conclusion that it is worth to at least try to convince
> kernel people to provide interfaces for us to get more control
> over important things like acpi' execution and its interrupts.

I think the way to do this is to provide a kernel patch that implements
such interfaces and then discuss with the kernel guys.

Stefan