1.\" $NetBSD: acpiwmi.4,v 1.6 2010/10/25 07:34:30 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen@iki.fi> 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any 12.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 13.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS 16.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 17.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 18.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 20.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 21.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 22.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 23.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 24.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 25.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.Dd October 24, 2010 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 "wmihp* at acpiwmibus?" 39.Cd "wmimsi* at acpiwmibus?" 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Nm 43device driver provides an 44.Tn ACPI 45interface for Windows Management Instrumentation 46.Pq Tn WMI . 47The 48.Tn ACPI 49.Tn WMI 50interface is typically used to support vendor 51specific features found in various laptops. 52.Pp 53The following 54.Tn WMI 55mappings are supported: 56.Bl -tag -width "wmidell " -offset indent 57.It Sy wmidell 58Dell laptops 59.It Sy wmihp 60Hewlett-Packard laptops 61.It Sy wmimsi 62MSI laptops 63.El 64.Pp 65The functionality varies from vendor to vendor. 66Typically the interface is used for function and hotkey handling, 67but additional features may be present. 68.Sh SEE ALSO 69.Xr acpi 4 , 70.Xr acpidalb 4 71.Rs 72.%A Microsoft Corporation 73.%D December 4, 2001 74.%T Windows Instrumentation: WMI and ACPI 75.%U http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx 76.Re 77.Sh HISTORY 78The 79.Nm 80device driver appeared in 81.Nx 6.0 . 82.Sh AUTHORS 83.An Jukka Ruohonen 84.Aq jruohonen@iki.fi 85wrote 86.Nm 87and most of the mappings. 88.Sh CAVEATS 89While 90.Tn WMI 91should provide a certain degree of portability across laptop 92models from a particular vendor, there is no guarantee that the mappings 93are functional in all models. 94.Pp 95The 96.Sy wmihp 97driver may conflict with 98.Xr hpqlb 4 . 99