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Chapter 3. Device Drivers

3.1. Storage Drivers
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  • The ipr driver for IBM Power Linux RAID SCSI HBAs has been updated to enable SAS VRAID functions and add definitions for new adapters.
  • The megaraid driver has been updated to version 5.40, which provides a fix for FastPath I/O to work with degraded RAID 1.
  • Panther Point PCH driver has been updated to add the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode for Intel Panther Point Device IDs.
  • The qla2xxx 4G and 8G driver firmware was updated to version 5.06.01.
  • The qla2xxx driver for QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs has been updated to version 8.03.07.09.05.08-k, which provides support for ISP82xx to capture a dump (a minidump) on when failure occurs.
  • The qla4xxx driver has been updated to version 5.02.04.00.05.08-d0.
  • The lpfc driver for Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters has been updated to version 8.2.0.108.1p.
  • The cciss driver has been updated to the latest version, which adds a command line switch to provide support for CCISS simple mode.
  • The be2iscsi driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine 2 Open iSCSI devices has been updated to support the pci_disable device option and a shutdown routine.
  • The bnx2i driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI has been updated to version 2.7.0.3.
  • The kernel multipath driver has been updated to add detailed SCSI I/O errors.
  • The bfa firmware was updated to version 3.0.2.2.
  • The bfa driver was updated to include the following enhancements:
    • Support for configuration of flash partitions.
    • Support for collecting and resetting fcport statistics.
    • Support for I/O profiling.
    • Updated RME interrupt handling.
    • Support for FC-transport asynchronous event notification.
    • Support for PHYsical Layer Control (PHY) querying.
    • Support for Host Bus Adapters (HBA) diagnostics.
    • Support for obtaining Small Form Factor (SFP) information.
    • Support for CEE information and statistics querying.
    • Support for Fabric Assigned Address (FAA).
    • Support for collecting driver/fw statistics and performing adapter/ioc enable/disable operations.
  • The mpt2sas driver was updated to version 09.100.00.00, which adds support for customer specific branding.
  • The mptsas driver was updated to version 3.04.20rh.
  • The isci driver has been updated to add type safety to the state machine interface and support for Intel's next chipset.
  • The uIP driver has been updated to version 0.7.0.12 as a part of the updated iscsi-initiator-utils package.
  • The megaraid_sas driver has been updated to version 5.40-rh1.

3.2. Network Drivers
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  • The bnx2x driver firmware has been updated to version 7.0.23, which provides support for new Broadcom 578xx chips.
  • The bnx2x driver has been updated to version 1.70.x.
  • The bnx2i driver has been updated to version 2.7.0.3+.
  • The bnx2 driver has been updated to version 2.1.11.
  • The cnic driver has been updated to version 2.5.3+.
  • The cxgb3 driver for the Chelsio T3 family of network devices has been updated to the latest upstream version.
  • The cxgb4 driver for Chelsio Terminator4 10G Unified Wire Network Controllers has been updated to the latest upstream version.
  • The iw_cxgb4 driver has been updated to the latest upstream version.
  • The netxen_nic driver has been updated to version 4.0.77, which adds support for VLAN RX HW acceleration.
  • The tg3 driver for Broadcom Tigon3 Ethernet devices has been updated to version 3.119.
  • The ixgbe driver for Intel 10 Gigabit PCI Express network devices has been updated to upstream version 3.4.8-k.
  • The ixgbevf driver has been updated to upstream version 2.1.0-k.
  • The igbvf driver has been updated to the latest upstream version.
  • The igb driver for Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapters has been updated to the latest upstream version, which adds entropy support.
  • The e1000e driver for Intel 82563/6/7, 82571/2/3/4/7/8/9, and 82583 PCI-E family of controllers has been updated to version 1.4.4.
  • The e1000 driver for Intel PRO/1000 PCI and PCI-X family of adapters has been updated to the latest upstream version.
  • The bna driver has been updated to version 3.0.2.2, which provides support for the Brocade 1860 AnyIO Fabric Adapter.
  • The qlge driver has been updated to version 1.00.00.29.
  • The qlcnic driver for HP NC-Series QLogic 10 Gigabit Server Adapters has been updated to version 5.0.18.
  • The be2net driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps network devices has been updated to the latest upstream version.
  • The enic driver for Cisco 10G Ethernet devices has been updated to version 2.1.1.24.
  • The nbd driver has been updated to add a user-settable timeout (NBD_SET_TIMEOUT) for I/O operations.

3.3. Graphics drivers
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  • Intel's i810 graphics driver (provided by the xorg-x11-drv-i810 package) has been updated to fix various bugs for the family of 32nm processors with Intel Integrated Graphics (codenamed IronLake).
  • The Matrox mga video card driver has been updated to provide full resolution support for ServerEngines Pilot 3 (Kronos 3) chips.
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