Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:57:01 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acpi_wmi dependency on acpi_ec Message-ID: <4A9C1CFD.1010602@root.org> In-Reply-To: <4A99547A.7090809@freebsd.org> References: <4A99547A.7090809@freebsd.org>
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Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Does acpi_wmi have to depend on acpi_ec so strongly as it does now? > > The reason I am asking is that I have a desktop system that seems to > provide "something WMI", but doesn't have an EC: > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/ga-ma780g-ud3h/acpi.asl WMI is two things: 1. proprietary API to some data already available in ACPI 2. standard for organizing system information not yet listed in the ACPI spec > I am not sure how to proceed next and if I can actually get anything > useful with WMI on this system. > For now I extracted binary MOF file stored in WQBA and used wmimofck > utility (from Windows Driver Kit) on it. The following is the resulting > header file: > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/ga-ma780g-ud3h/wq.h > Any advice on what I could try next? What you can do with it is totally dependent on the system. Sometimes it offers a lot of info, sometimes not. With laptops, I think most manufacturers ignored WMI and ACPI and wrote their own hotkey drivers. -- Nate
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