From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ACPI BIOS Guideline for Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:29:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808272129.16131.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807241732.23412.trenn@suse.de>
On Thursday 24 July 2008 16:32:22 Thomas Renninger wrote:
> \section{WMI - Windows Management Instrumentation}
>
> WMI is a Microsoft specific service. A small part of it
> describes possible ACPI WMI implementations provided by the BIOS.
> This is not part of the official ACPI specification and BIOS developers
> should avoid using it. The Linux kernel driver supports basic WMI ACPI
> functionality (since 2.6.25), but it is marked experimental.
> ACPI functionality should not depend on the WMI interface.
Perhaps it would be more useful to suggest to vendors/ BIOS writers what they
should use here instead?
-Carlos
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 15:32 [ANNOUNCE] ACPI BIOS Guideline for Linux Thomas Renninger
2008-07-24 23:47 ` Len Brown
2008-07-25 11:20 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-27 20:29 ` Carlos Corbacho [this message]
2008-08-28 9:41 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-28 10:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-28 12:16 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-28 12:22 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-29 15:29 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-30 12:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-31 13:18 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-31 17:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-09-03 15:09 ` Thomas Renninger
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