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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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