WMI Architecture

[erw34r3]

Hola,

Long time veteran short time poster.

I Currently have this System;

Q8200

Asus P5K Mobo P35

2Gb DDR2

120Gb IDE

I finally got "ACPI Multiprocessor Support" functioning after a day or two.

And have had the Q8200 listed in dev manager off and on

It seems the references to the cpu only reverts when any WMI calls are made.

I would really like any Intel/Microsoft developer manuals explaining the intracisies of WMI from early adoption to present day.

Alas i fear such materials are kept inhouse?

I speculate that multicore is quite possible, though only by cueing cores.

Which would be no different than single core functionality 'For now'

Any good whitepapers on the WMI Architecture would be quite advantageous.

That's my 2 cents worth

[eidenk]

Well if you get to know how I can remove the WMI drivers (WMILIB.SYS and WMIDRV.SYS) from Windows ME without breaking the ability to connect to a network let me know.

[awergh]

Most of what I have found is mostly current NT stuff rather then early stuff but it might be useful to you anyway.

The last 3 might be most relevant because they are much older (2001) and probably more relevant information.

WMI Architecture

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394553(VS.85).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc180678.aspx

Managing Windows with WMI

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742445.aspx

WMI and CIM Concepts and Terminology

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/WMI-CIM.mspx

WMI Driver Testing for Windows 9x

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/drvtest.mspx

WMI Support for SMART Drives

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/smartdrv.mspx

[erw34r3]

Thanks Cobber,

These seem to be a good start;

Managing Windows with WMI

WMI and CIM Concepts and Terminology

I was told win98 1st edition does not have WMI, this seems to be an inaccurate assumption.

Contrary evidence seems to be that FE(1st edition) may have been a proof of concept testing system, as there are skeletal elements of the WMI architecture remaing.

I tested acpi.sys from many os variations, and have found the xp version to be highly compatible & minimal errors ( no bsod or lockups ).

My quest is to either remove WMI or to properly implement WMI, the latter being the more sensible approach.

Thanks for the links, but i need more comprehensive information.

"The Win32_Processor WMI class represents a device that can interpret a sequence of instructions on a computer running on a Windows operating system. On a multiprocessor computer, one instance of the Win32_Processor class exists for each processor."

It is quite possible that this was not implemented in 98, and therefore some feature is causing a fault within the driver model ?

Could someone please elaborate, if this is true ?

Edited July 4, 2009 by erw34r3