Upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0 and unsupported hardware

Hi,

I'm relatively new to ESXi. I've been running it as a home server for around 5 months, and so far it's been fantastic. I built my server on new hardware, including the following HBA which I pass through to a FreeNAS VM.

SAS 9210-8i Host Bus Adapter

Today I thought I'd try the upgrade to ESXi 7.0, but the installer brings up a warning saying my host has unsupported hardware and logs the following:

[pciinfo 1000:0072 1000:3040]

By the looks of it, this represents my HBA card: https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1000/0072/10003040

I've cancelled the upgrade for now. I'm hoping someone can help me with a couple of questions:

1. Does this warning mean ESXi would not be able to pass this device through to a VM like I've been doing under 6.7?

2. Is there any hope of ESXi supporting this in the future, or does it generally mean they've dropped support for this device now?

Any advice is much appreciated!