Adding SMART support to base

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A ways back, I wrote a small utility [1] for FreeBSD to retrieve SMART data
in a unified way for ATA, NVMe, and SCSI drives. The application has been
in the port's tree for about 8 years, but recently, I've gotten several
inquiries (including from the Sylve developer) about the possibility of
including this as a part of the base OS.

The application is tailored to being used in monitoring applications, and
as such, does not try to include every bell and whistle found in the
smartmontools suite (e.g., no daemon). I think this would fill a meaningful
gap in the FreeBSD base system, but wanted to get feedback from others.

Thoughts?

[1] https://github.com/ctuffli/smart

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found in the smartmontools suite (e.g., no daemon). I think this would fill=
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