5.3-Release/Stable Problems with ichsmb

[Jochen Keil]

Hi all.

Recently i've got a dual Mainboard and one of the first things i tried 
was the smbus stuff.
I knew that i had to put device smb and device smbus in my kernel 
configuration file plus a specific driver.
After some googl'ing i figured out that i need the ichsmb driver in 
order to access the chip.

So i compiled a kernel with the smb and smp stuff and after rebooting i 
wondered why i didn't have /dev/smb?.
Loading the modules wasn't possible because they were already compiled 
into the kernel except the ichsmb module which gave me an error that 
there was no file called "ichsmb.ko" available.
Checking /boot/kernel i realized that this was true.
After compiling a second time (i updated to 5.3-release meanwhile) the 
error was still there an no /dev/smb? for me.
Looking into the make.conf manpage showed me that i could try with 
MODULES_OVERRIDE.
Trying "make MODULES_OVERRIDE=ichsmb buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO" ended 
with an error in ichsmb which isn't in /usr/src/sys/modules.
Playing around in the sources (trying to copy sys/dev/ichsmb to 
sys/modules, editing some Makefiles and so on) didn't give me better 
results.

I'm currently compiling a GENERIC Kernel (without SMP) with device 
smb/smbus/ichsmb but i don't expect to much from it because the module 
isn't available in a plain GENERIC.

You guys are my last hope is there a chance of getting ichsmb somehow 
compiled or am i doing something wrong?

Hope to hear from you real soon,

greetings,

Jochen Keil