Comment 17 for bug 315763

Sergey, you're conflating two things here. You're talking about the installer initrd, which does not need to include aic94xx-seq.fw because it's in the scsi-firmware udeb which is loaded at run-time. However, the folks reporting this bug are talking about the initramfs that's used on the installed system, which is generated using an entirely separate system (initramfs-tools).

On my Natty system, /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw is in the initramfs. The odd thing is that the code that puts it there has been there for a long time, back to Ubuntu 8.10, so I don't quite see why this wouldn't have worked in older releases; it's possible that this is system-specific, and that maybe I'm just lucky that the file is present here. This needs some more analysis.