Messages in this thread | | | From | Carlos Corbacho <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] ACPI BIOS Guideline for Linux | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:29:15 +0100 |
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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 -- E-Mail: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D
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