True, I appreciate any time you can devote to this matter.
As you are probably aware, these devices are high IOPS/high STR/low latency flash pcie cards with extremely long endurance ratings that can be had for <$0.08/GB now. They are ideal for cache and VM, especially at this price point however are 100% driver/VSL dependant.
I am in contact with a guy that worked on development and support of these cards for FusionIO/Sandisk/WD.
Dunno if it helps, but this was his reply when asked the same thing regarding driver inclusion about the gen2/ioDriveII product:
"So unraid is slackware, and as such is using a 4.x kernel right now. You'd have to go into the driver download section for fedora/etc that feature a 4.x kernel and grab the iomemory-vsl-3.2.15.1699-1.0.src.rpm that is available there.
I'd probably stand up a development slack VM with the kernel headers/build env setup and use that to build your kernel module for the ioDrives.
As someone has already stated, if you update unraid, that ioDrive kernel module won't load and you'll have to build a new one for your newer kernel before the drives will come back online.
You can set stuff up with dkms to auto-rebuild on new kernel updates, but that can sometimes be a bit of a learning curve...
-- Dave"
Previously, I just dumped a directory of all support files for SLES11/12 .... is there anything I can do or ask Dave to make driver integration easier?