support of SMBus on ICH3

[Igor Pokrovsky]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:11:36PM +0200, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
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> On Monday 18 August 2003 13:56, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> 
> > Tried right now. It writes me every time that executable must be run
> > suid root. But the problem is that executable IS suid root (4555).
> > Did you experience such problem?
> 
> From 00README.txt in the source tree (or if you've installed without 
> NOPORTDOCS look in the usual place):
> =======================================================
>   As I said, the programs access IO port directly, so even if the
> program has a "setuid root" permission, they won't work on the system
> where this IO port access is prohibited.  If the following message,
> 
>    InitMBInfo: Operation not permitted
>    This program needs "setuid root"!!
> 
> comes on FreeBSD, the system security level is too strict and IO port
> access is not allowed (see kern_securelevel_enable, kern_securelevel
> in /etc/rc.conf).  Make your security level lower, or just give up
> to use the programs.
> =======================================================


Hmm, I did never change secure level, it is -1 (most insecure)
by default.

-ip

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