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Linux WMI Driver Gets Ready To Support ACPI-Based ARM64 Laptops

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July 2026

Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...