From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darren Hart Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 12:09:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20170508190900.GF17700@fury> References: <775ffd8f3327497cabd15ee7826cedaf@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> <20170505234436.GB25865@fury> <20170508152907.GA17700@fury> <20170508154725.GD17700@fury> <27661c9222e2452aa78ab1d1c1cd9015@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27661c9222e2452aa78ab1d1c1cd9015@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com Cc: a.bokovoy@gmail.com, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org, pali.rohar@gmail.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net, len.brown@intel.com, corentin.chary@gmail.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:26:53PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote: > (Responding as plain text, your email probably got punted from the ML from being HTML) > > > > > ... > > > > I'm not sure what you are asking about. Samba does not deal with WMI at all. The state of affairs is > > explained at https://powershell.org/2015/04/24/management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/ > > -- old WMI (DCOM/RPC-based) is deprecated, new WMI based on WS-MAN is supported and OMI is the > > implementation. We used to have a very limited attemt at writing DCOM stack and nobody worked on > > it for years so it got removed. > > Thanks! That was a very interesting read. > > > Microsoft has already published a MOF parser as part of OMI work: https://github.com/Microsoft/omi/ > > under MIT license. > > Unfortunately that's expecting text MOF, not this intermediary compiled format. > I presume which of these to use is the decision of the vendor? Is there a transition going on from BMOF to Text MOF? Or will both be part of products for the near term? I'm trying to understand if BMOF is a legacy thing now, or if it will continue to be used in new designs. -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center