I managed to successfully install hardware and software.  Only drawback is that the ioFusion2 drive in some way conflicted with one of my NIC cards, so I had to move the ethernet back to the Intel controller.  The E1000 chipset drivers don’t work right with hardware offloading in Linux so it is necessary to disable it which puts more burdon on the CPU.  But I doubt it will make a measurable difference, between hosts I am seeing .1ms ping time.

     So drivers worked properly with the 5.10.20 kernel I am now running, and the utility software all installed and functioned properly, so the database is now operating off of it.  It reduced our WordPress home page load times from 240-290ms region to 207ms.  Database which used to max at 400TPS has successfully handled bursts of 2923 TPS.