ACPIWMI(4)

✨ NAME ✨

acpiwmi — Windows Management Instrumentation support for ACPI, bestie 💖 This page is from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's lowkey iconic.

🌸 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. It's giving "special laptop features but make it ACPI." ✨

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, no cap. Typically the interface is used for function and hotkey handling, but additional features may be present. So yeah, it's not just one vibe. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• acpi(4)
• acpidalb(4)

Also: Microsoft Corporation, Windows Instrumentation: WMI and ACPI, http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx, December 4, 2001. That's the source, bestie 📚

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The acpiwmi device driver appeared in NetBSD 6.0 — periodt 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Jukka Ruohonen ⟨jruohonen@iki.fi⟩ wrote acpiwmi and most of the mappings. Icon behavior 🫶

💅 CAVEATS 💅

Bestie, listen: 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. That's the risk 😭

Also, the wmihp driver may conflict with hpqlb(4). So watch out for that vibe check ⚠️

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From Debian, dated May 27, 2019 — that's the source/version and date, bestie; mwah 💋🌈