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Message-Id: <176823202983.9723.14857677950268577030.b4-ty@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:33:49 +0200
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: hansg@...nel.org, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux@...ssschuh.net, Dell.Client.Kernel@...l.com, corbet@....net, 
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] platform/wmi: Introduce marshalling support

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

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