Intel ICH7 SMBus support, ichsmb(4)

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 12 06:52:02 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Michael Butler wrote:
> Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> > Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> >> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> >>
> >>> I suppose a lot of these could be addressed if I released the code in a
> >>> preliminary fashion (providing folks the ability to help me with
> >>> documentation, etc.). Hmm... Yeah, I should really get a beta tarball
> >>> up, and/or make a FreeBSD port for it already (since I am a ports
> >>> committer).
> >
> > My suggestion would be to make the code available using a Mercurial
> > repository. People are then free to participate and send diffs as they
> > see fit, and they can do so very easily. The learning curve for the
> > tool is reasonable.
> >
> > I'd also recommend http://freehg.org/ if you need some hosting for a
> > public repo.
> What would prevent this being accepted as a loadable module built (by
> user request) out of the ports tree in much the same manner as kqemu et al.?
> 
>     Michael

I'm confused by this question and its relevancy to what Bruce said.  :-)
Can you explain?

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