Chapter 6. Device drivers


6.1. New drivers

  • ACPI Video Driver (video), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • CXL driver for CXL memory endpoint devices and switches for memory expansion (cxl_mem)
  • GNSS receiver core (gnss)
  • GPIO Simulator Module (gpio-sim), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • VirtIO GPIO driver (gpio-virtio), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • NVIDIA Tegra HTE (Hardware Timestamping Engine) driver (hte-tegra194), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • I2C adapter driver for LPI2C bus (i2c-imx-lpi2c), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Virtio i2c bus driver (i2c-virtio), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • User level driver support for input subsystem (uinput), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Module which implements common functions that can be used by the nvme host or target drivers (nvme-common)
  • AMD PMC Driver (amd-pmc), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Nvidia sn2201 platform driver (nvsw-sn2201), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Serial multi instantiate pseudo device driver (serial-multi-instantiate), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Micro Crystal RV8803 RTC driver (rtc-rv8803), only in 64-bit ARM architecture and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • NVIDIA Tegra QSPI Controller Driver (spi-tegra210-quad), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • UCSI driver for Cypress CCGx Type-C controller (ucsi_ccg), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Confidential computing EFI secret area access (efi_secret), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • TDX Guest Driver (tdx-guest), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • HPE watchdog driver (hpwdt), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • POWER Architecture Platform Watchdog Driver (pseries-wdt), only in IBM Power Systems, Little Endian

Network drivers

  • Driver for VXLAN encapsulated traffic (vxlan)
  • Marvell OcteonTX2 RVU Admin Function Driver (rvu_af), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Marvell RVU NIC Physical Function Driver (rvu_nicpf), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Marvell RVU NIC PTP Driver (otx2_ptp), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Marvell RVU NIC Virtual Function Driver (rvu_nicvf), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • NVIDIA Tegra MGBE driver (dwmac-tegra), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Serial line CAN interface (slcan), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Solarflare Siena network driver (sfc-siena), only in IBM Power Systems, Little Endian and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

Graphics drivers and miscellaneous drivers

  • DRM Buddy Allocator (drm_buddy), only in 64-bit ARM architecture and IBM Power Systems, Little Endian
  • DRM display adapter helper (drm_display_helper), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • DRM DisplayPort AUX bus (drm_dp_aux_bus), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Host1x driver for Tegra products (host1x), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver (tegra-drm), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Intel® GVT-g for KVM (kvmgt), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • HP® iLO/iLO2 management processor (hpilo), only in 64-bit ARM architecture
  • Intel® auxiliary driver for GSC devices (mei-gsc), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

6.2. Updated drivers

Storage driver updates

  • Driver for Microchip Smart Family Controller (smartpqi) has been updated to version 2.1.20-035 (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures).
  • Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver (lpfc) has been updated to version 14.2.0.8 (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures).
  • MPI3 Storage Controller Device Driver (mpi3mr) has been updated to version 8.2.0.3.0.
  • CSI debug adapter driver (scsi_debug) has been updated to version 0191.
  • LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 Device Driver (mpt3sas) has been updated to version 43.100.00.00 (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures).
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