fix: enable FUSION_SPI driver

[smira]

It seems to be used by VMWare when virtualizing storage device as a SCSI disk.

Investigation by James Ringer from the community Slack.

udevadm info -a -n /dev/sda | grep -oP 'DRIVERS?=="\K[^"]+'
sd
mptspi

[smira]

Note: when backporting to 1.6.x, make it =y.

[smira]

New module:

├── message
│   └── fusion
│       └── [ 66K]  mptspi.ko

[frezbo]

Note: when backporting to 1.6.x, make it =y.

is this just to avoid updateing modules.txt in talos ?

[smira]

Note: when backporting to 1.6.x, make it =y.

is this just to avoid updateing modules.txt in talos ?

no, Talos 1.6 doesn't have it as modules (storage stuff).

[smira]

/m

[jameshearttech]

I confirmed that the disks are available after changing the storage controller from SCSI to SATA as was suggested in Slack. I suspect the SATA controller is less performant so that's probably not ideal, but atleast we have a workaround until we can test this fix.

For reference we have a few options under SCSI controller for SCSI bus sharing and the kubeadm node I checked was configured to use LSI Logic Parallel, but I don't know if mptspi is a requirement of the SCSI controller or if it's specific to LSI Logic Parallel.

• BusLogic Parallel
• LSI Logic Parallel
• LSI Logic SAS
• VMware Paravirtual

[jameshearttech]

I tested v1.6.3 ISO on my end with SCSI controller and LSI Logic Parallel bus sharing option and confirmed the fix works as expected!

[frezbo]

I tested v1.6.3 ISO on my end with SCSI controller and LSI Logic Parallel bus sharing option and confirmed the fix works as expected!

if you have Talos already installed iso would just boot that