In some news indirectly related to Kodi, the Linux kernel have finally now in version 4.8 its own official HDMI-CEC framework which since merged into the mainline Linux 4.8 kernel that was just releaed:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne…-Linux-4.8
As it is likley that many hardware manufactuers will adopt the use of this framework since it in mainline Linux kernel this might mean that Kodi could possible get better HDMI-CEC support in the future, or at least support for CEC on more hardware.
And if this HDMI-CEC framework is also later merged downstream into the Android kernel then it could possible mean better CEC support when using Kodi on Android OS as well.
Details on the framework in this PDF:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/…wide_1.pdf
Full development changelog here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/685756/
Developers contributions here (with the main developers behind this new framework who worked on it for the past four years was Kamil Debski from Samsung & Hans Verkuil from Cisco):