[RFE] Add MPI3MR kernel module

[lukasz-borek]

Current situation

MPI3MR module is not present in default build :

CONFIG_SCSI_MPI3MR is not set

Impact

RAID controllers using MPI3MR module (standard for Dell 16gen, PERC12, H965i) are not configured.

Ideal future situation

New images contain mpi3mr module.

Implementation options

N/A

Additional information

N/A

[sfudeus]

The change itself to enable the module would be trivial enough. Is there anything which is blocking from doing this? I could provide the (one-line) PR for a start.
I'm eagerly waiting for support for this module and we'd only build custom images for this, which is a bit much overhead, but likely we must go into this to have it in stable in a timely manner?

[jepio]

Go ahead and post a PR to enable it in the AMD64 config. They only consideration is going to be - how does this affect initrd size.

[sfudeus]

thx, done (to commonconfig though). To my understanding, this is relevant for ARM, too. I only would be able to test on amd64. Please advise if I should restrict to amd64.

[ader1990]

Hello @sfudeus, the alpha/beta/stable channels will contain the change - in a few days at most. Can you please verify that the fix works, in the meantime, using the direct links:

Alpha 4116.0.0, Beta 4081.1.0, Stable 3975.2.2
Pre-view images are available in https://bincache.flatcar-linux.net/images/amd64/$VERSION/

[sfudeus]

@ader1990 We tested stable today, looking good from our perspective. Shall I do the effort and run our servers against beta/alpha as well? Not sure if alpha would possibly fail for unrelated reasons.