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Message-Id: <200808272129.16131.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:29:15 +0100
From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Cc: linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ACPI BIOS Guideline for Linux
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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