On Tue Mar 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM -05, Armin Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > since around 2017 we are able to partially decode the Binary MOF (BMOF) data used to describe the interfaces of WMI-ACPI > devices found inside modern devices. This initial reverse-engineering was done by Pali Rohár and implementing a BMOF parser > inside the kernel was originally also proposed by him (see https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/201706041809.21573@pali/T/). > > As part of my bachelor thesis i finished the reverse-engineering and created yet another utility for parsing BMOF data. > This utility can be found at github (https://github.com/Wer-Wolf/tarkin) and i now intend to use it to finally implement > a BMOF parser inside the kernel. It most be a very cool thesis project, I'll look into tarkin. > > There exists a growing list of WMI drivers using quirk tables for detecting the presence of specific WMI methods on a given > device. This approach is maintenance-intensive and not exactly user friendly (end users rarely send kernel patches). Because > of this we need this BMOF parser so that we can check which WMI methods are available. A BMOF parser in-kernel is definetly a game changer for a lot of drivers. Can't wait to implement this in alienware-wmi! Please, keep me updated. I wish you the best for your thesis :) -- ~ Kurt
