From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [192.198.163.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29CB835FF4B; Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.198.163.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768232040; cv=none; b=CUG+aeWU9UtrGs+j0FWgkrr96mwkNtzRjVZF4llf/zzMIm4rWFedloGH2qyiQgkTYaob8uONA588jhl90TGN/GMHB37JAZ4laFsxALA+TWx6gVj2c0U/xxo1sYu7IK5VamETSWPp7NO/7EviDQfP5SUXHKmYjeYFIthBIMsfr64= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768232040; c=relaxed/simple; bh=f3xO0slKAVaBiRTlD2qHC9T3jGFow6wm/0m9cbCdPm0=; h=From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:Message-Id:Date: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=avxOU9QZYSTvhBMtciMclPNdksbZexyQNNWJcMLn1KHpEYv75xt0yVIQn0s4rWZZQtkbfymsy8DP9RQpNkgmBXh0eIxNeAHqu8nPp6SapVJzASfWboWcd3UiFHSg1vV0yenIQafAYDDxiK9eRa38a/X9F1Ch2dxXEr0wNI0sufM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.intel.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b=UX6r9aQa; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.198.163.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b="UX6r9aQa" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1768232038; x=1799768038; h=from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:subject:message-id: date:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f3xO0slKAVaBiRTlD2qHC9T3jGFow6wm/0m9cbCdPm0=; b=UX6r9aQaaY1Zcs2Yazs3n9Bd1fZRNziTuTA6izYga1IS6xfwz60kJMvW Dj+GlPtOjKCkq9HZTrLVuRvxJY8yrHQ9mcp93JjW4prjo7QHEGEeBtZig 0fyWec9d+lV8+KOx+Lh141mJePqJwP4VMaP12qgCssh+gHahbudkLbcj9 tR39D9PHw5SUjPanaqUFjMdhsSaZjWG4Ltls9l2j3NR/nK4Qy6HKHIPRT 5bxrTgp2O457W9etAGtMaNoknbCPyswCfsrXV0haMyb7rfQigqX2iaHKV MWz9yG0BFWVKddiYSZuSJA5Nv0XGQ68m+t2dfOIgjGg9bX/zbBsAtnCpL Q==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: 0hDdSG8tQ3229Mf+KSrpSw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: USyV3ZRARnSTHZc5e8f1xQ== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11669"; a="80147096" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.21,221,1763452800"; d="scan'208";a="80147096" Received: from orviesa004.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.144]) by fmvoesa105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 12 Jan 2026 07:33:57 -0800 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: MYrPfBHlS7Ow16ZvgHyi7w== X-CSE-MsgGUID: //hswbcMTOiUuXeU/cqkuQ== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.21,221,1763452800"; d="scan'208";a="208636240" Received: from ijarvine-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.245.245.111]) by orviesa004-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 12 Jan 2026 07:33:54 -0800 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ilpo=20J=C3=A4rvinen?= To: hansg@kernel.org, Armin Wolf Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@weissschuh.net, Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com, corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20260109214619.7289-1-W_Armin@gmx.de> References: <20260109214619.7289-1-W_Armin@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] platform/wmi: Introduce marshalling support Message-Id: <176823202983.9723.14857677950268577030.b4-ty@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:33:49 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: b4 0.13.0 On Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:46:10 +0100, Armin Wolf wrote: > The Windows WMI-ACPI driver likely uses wmilib [1] to interact with > the WMI service in userspace. Said library uses plain byte buffers > for exchanging data, so the WMI-ACPI driver has to convert between > those byte buffers and ACPI objects returned by the ACPI firmware. > > The format of the byte buffer is publicly documented [2], and after > some reverse eingineering of the WMI-ACPI driver using a set of custom > ACPI tables, the following conversion rules have been discovered: > > [...] Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local review-ilpo-next branch. Note it will show up in the public platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-next branch only once I've pushed my local branch there, which might take a while. The list of commits applied: [1/9] platform/wmi: Introduce marshalling support commit: bfa284e9f5e77c9e7389116a403b1dc478f2d58e [2/9] platform/wmi: Add kunit test for the marshalling code commit: 1e4746e93871168f50f237e9e316dc6c9a883719 [3/9] platform/wmi: Add helper functions for WMI string conversions commit: 3ae53ee45d5c958aae883173d1e4cafe15564cce [4/9] platform/wmi: Add kunit test for the string conversion code commit: 3579df4cf0b5a3c1d50146c72b13bb4215d509b5 [5/9] platform/x86: intel-wmi-sbl-fw-update: Use new buffer-based WMI API commit: ca7861de6a37a52bf75fe41be51fd39162a9281d [6/9] platform/x86/intel/wmi: thunderbolt: Use new buffer-based WMI API commit: 7f331e5f10ebb72d3bbc83470e4b409337024093 [7/9] platform/x86: xiaomi-wmi: Use new buffer-based WMI API commit: e9997669653bc0622f9ed8a3fe778cc989d1e254 [8/9] platform/x86: wmi-bmof: Use new buffer-based WMI API commit: 70d37a7fd341e5c0090385034feb8f6f93a56ae7 [9/9] platform/wmi: Update driver development guide commit: 0835f9737d4705a9f72de05fde09ba806dcbc862 -- i.