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27.Dd February 16, 2011
28.Dt ACPIWMI 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm acpiwmi
32.Nd Windows Management Instrumentation support for
33.Tn ACPI
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "acpiwmi* at acpi?"
36.Cd "acpiwmibus* at acpiwmi?"
37.Cd "wmidell* at acpiwmibus?"
38.Cd "wmieeepc* at acpiwmibus?"
39.Cd "wmihp* at acpiwmibus?"
40.Cd "wmimsi* at acpiwmibus?"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44device driver provides an
45.Tn ACPI
46interface for Windows Management Instrumentation
47.Pq Tn WMI .
48The
49.Tn ACPI
50.Tn WMI
51interface is typically used to support vendor
52specific features found in various laptops.
53.Pp
54The following
55.Tn WMI
56mappings are supported:
57.Bl -tag -width "wmidell " -offset indent
58.It Sy wmidell
59Dell laptops
60.It Sy wmieeepc
61Some models of Asus Eee PC
62.It Sy wmihp
63Hewlett-Packard laptops
64.It Sy wmimsi
65MSI laptops
66.El
67.Pp
68The functionality varies from vendor to vendor.
69Typically the interface is used for function and hotkey handling,
70but additional features may be present.
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr acpi 4 ,
73.Xr acpidalb 4
74.Rs
75.%A Microsoft Corporation
76.%D December 4, 2001
77.%T Windows Instrumentation: WMI and ACPI
78.%U http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx
79.Re
80.Sh HISTORY
81The
82.Nm
83device driver appeared in
84.Nx 6.0 .
85.Sh AUTHORS
86.An Jukka Ruohonen
87.Aq jruohonen@iki.fi
88wrote
89.Nm
90and most of the mappings.
91.Sh CAVEATS
92While
93.Tn WMI
94should provide a certain degree of portability across laptop
95models from a particular vendor, there is no guarantee that the mappings
96are functional in all models.
97.Pp
98The
99.Sy wmihp
100driver may conflict with
101.Xr hpqlb 4 .
102