Chapter 3. Device Drivers
This chapter provides a comprehensive listing of all device drivers which were updated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5.
Storage Drivers
- The Emulex
be2iscsi
driver has been upgraded to the latest upstream version. - The
megaraid_sas
driver has been upgraded to version 6.600.18.00. - The pm8001/pm80xx driver has been added in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 to add support for PMC-Sierra Adaptec Series 6H and 7H SAS/SATA HBA cards as well as PMC Sierra 8081, 8088, and 8089 chip based SAS/SATA controllers.
- 12Gbps SAS devices from LSI are now supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- The Brocade
BFA
driver has been updates to version 3.2.21.1. - The
NVMe
driver has been added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. - Starting in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, iSCSI and FCoE boot on Broadcom devices is fully supported. These two features are provided by the bnx2i and bnx2fc Broadcom drivers.
Network Drivers
- The Virtual Extensible LAN,
vxlan
, driver has been updated. - Support for Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) has been added to the
qlcnic
driver as a Technology Preview. - The Brocade
BNA
driver has been updated to version 3.1.2.1. - The
ixgbevf
driver has been updated to the latest upstream version. - The
igbvf
driver has been updated the to latest upstream version. - The
bnx2x
driver has been updated to version 1.78.17-0. - The Emulex
be2net
driver has been updated to version 4.6.x. - The
qlcnic
driver has been updated to add support for the QLogic 83XX CNA adapter. - The
e1000e
driver has been updated to the latest upstream version. - The
tg3
driver has been updated to include various bug fixes and new features, including hardware PTP support. - The
sfc
driver has been upgraded to upstream version 3.2 and includes hardware accelerated receive flow steering (RFS). - The
igb
driver has been updated to version 4.1.2 to include software time stamping support. - The
qlge
driver has been updated to version 1.00.00.32.
Miscellaneous Drivers
- The
hpilo
driver has been upgraded to the latest upstream version.