NAME
acpiwmi —
Windows Management
Instrumentation support for ACPI
SYNOPSIS
acpiwmi* at acpi?
wmidell* at acpiwmibus?
wmieeepc* at acpiwmibus?
wmihp* at acpiwmibus?
wmimsi* at acpiwmibus?
DESCRIPTION
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:
-
-
- wmidell
- Dell laptops
-
-
- wmieeepc
- Some models of Asus Eee PC
-
-
- wmihp
- Hewlett-Packard laptops
-
-
- wmimsi
- MSI laptops
The functionality varies from vendor to vendor. Typically the interface is used
for function and hotkey handling, but additional features may be present.
SEE ALSO
acpi(4),
acpidalb(4)
Microsoft Corporation,
Windows Instrumentation: WMI and ACPI,
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx,
December 4, 2001.
HISTORY
The
acpiwmi device driver appeared in
NetBSD
6.0.
AUTHORS
Jukka Ruohonen ⟨jruohonen@iki.fi⟩ wrote
acpiwmi and most of the mappings.
CAVEATS
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).