Apologies for necro-posting, but I wanted to say thank you for this work and effort. I have one of these cards in an old HP server and was about to undertake a similar endeavor after Broadcom killed ESXi's free version, and I was delighted to find that it already existed!! This after I spent several hours (ok...days) cobbling together the steps, code, and testing to make sure I didn't light my card on fire.
Love community supported software!
Thanks again!
--C#