ACK/Cmnt: [SRU][J/N/P][PATCH 0/1] UBUNTU: [Config] Enable SYM53C8XX_2 on arm64

[John Cabaj]

On 8/8/25 3:26 PM, Benjamin Wheeler wrote:
> From: Benjamin Wheeler <benjaminwheeler at canonical.com>
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-base/+bug/2118499

BugLink should be of the short form 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2118499. Can edit when pushing the changes.

Acked-by: John Cabaj <john.cabaj at canonical.com>

> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> Cloud images using the arm64 minimal kernel cannot detect config drive cloud-init datasources in openstack. This seems to be due to openstack environments using or emulating a sym53c8xx scsi controller for the config drive.
> 
> This seems to affect both minimal cloud images as well as generic arm64 kernels.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Enable the SYM53C8XX_2 driver in generic arm64 kernels. This allows the drive to be successfully mounted.
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> To reproduce: register and launch an arm64 minimal cloud image in openstack configured to use a block disk bus and verify that cloud init can mount the config drive.
> 
> 
> Benjamin Wheeler (1):
>    Include SYM53C8XX_2 driver
> 
>   debian.master/config/annotations | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>