Chapter 3. Device Drivers
3.1. Storage Drivers
- 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 thepci_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.