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Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux
Submitted for code review this weekend was a new MSI WMI Platform driver that was developed via reverse engineering MSI laptops
Mainlined to the Linux kernel last year was the MSI-EC driver for interfacing with the embedded controller (EC) on modern MSI laptops. While MSI is not alone, it's too bad -- and rather embarrassing in 2024 -- there still are a number of major OEMs not working on Linux driver support directly for their consumer hardware but leaving it to their customers and the open-source community. The underlying ACPI WMI interface supports many features, but so far only reading of fan speed sensors is implemented.
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