Re: [Devel] Can a userspace tool to read the Embedded Controller get added to acpica sources?

-----Original Message----- From: Moore, Robert Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 2:36 PM To: 'Thomas Renninger' Subject: RE: [Devel] Can a userspace tool to read the Embedded Controller get added to acpica sources? OK, we'll take a look >-----Original Message----- >From: devel-bounces(a)acpica.org [mailto:devel-bounces@acpica.org] On Behalf >Of Thomas Renninger >Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 6:31 AM >To: devel(a)acpica.org >Subject: [Devel] Can a userspace tool to read the Embedded Controller get >added to acpica sources? > >Hi, > >next kernel will have EC read/write support. >A userspace tool is needed to make use of the interface. > >As the Embedded Controller is tightly bound to ACPI >(devel/debugging/testing), the best package this tool would fit in is >acpica. >A new package is not worth it, if not accepted I'd still package >this together with acpica.rpm. But if it gets included, there is some >guarantee that this binary shows up in the same way on different >distros. > >Thus it would be great if this code: >ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec/ec_access.c >Could get integrated into the acpica repository. > >Not sure where this best could fit into if accepted, possibly: >acpica/source/os_specific/ec_access >or >acpica/source/os_specific/tools/ec_access >? > >Thanks, > > Thomas >_______________________________________________ >Devel mailing list >Devel(a)acpica.org >http://lists.acpica.org/listinfo/devel