ACPIWMI(4) | Device Drivers Manual | ACPIWMI(4) |
acpiwmi
— Windows
Management Instrumentation support for ACPI
acpiwmi* at acpi?
wmidell* at acpiwmibus?
wmieeepc* at acpiwmibus?
wmihp* at acpiwmibus?
wmimsi* at acpiwmibus?
The acpiwmi
device driver provides an ACPI
interface for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). The ACPI WMI
interface is typically used to support vendor specific features found in
various laptops.
The following WMI mappings are supported:
The functionality varies from vendor to vendor. Typically the interface is used for function and hotkey handling, but additional features may be present.
Microsoft Corporation, Windows Instrumentation: WMI and ACPI, http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx, December 4, 2001.
The acpiwmi
device driver appeared in
NetBSD 6.0.
Jukka Ruohonen
<jruohonen@iki.fi>
wrote acpiwmi
and most of the mappings.
While WMI should provide a certain degree of portability across laptop models from a particular vendor, there is no guarantee that the mappings are functional in all models.
The wmihp driver may conflict with hpqlb(4).
May 27, 2019 | NetBSD 10.99 |