Building on Delbert's work, the following commands are what I had to do to get
this working. Basically I use an initramfs hook to make sure the firmware and
supporting files are included on the initrd image every time it's built (like
when you do a kernel upgrade). Then you just use update-initramfs to re-build
the image.
According to this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/328550 it looks like this
won't be getting fixed any time soon?
Also, it looks like you don't actually need the firmware to be copied to
/lib/firmware/<kernelversion>/aic94xx even though update-initramfs whines about
it.
I hope this gets a more official fix, or at least some notification
during the install process that you can't use drives requiring this
driver as your root partiton
cat << EOF > /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/firmware_aic94xx
#!/bin/sh
PREREQ="udev"
prereqs()
{
echo "$PREREQ"
}
case $1 in
prereqs)
prereqs
exit 0
;;
esac
. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions
copy_exec /lib/udev/firmware.sh /lib/udev
cp /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules $DESTDIR/lib/udev/rules.d/
mkdir -p $DESTDIR/lib/firmware
cp /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw $DESTDIR/lib/firmware
EOF
chmod +x /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/firmware_aic94xx
update-initramfs -k all -c
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