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Chapter 6. Device drivers

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6.1. New drivers

Network drivers

  • MediaTek MT7601U (USB) support (mt7601u), adds support for MT7601U-based wireless USB dongles (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • MediaTek MT76x0E (PCIe) support (mt76x0e), adds support for MT7610/MT7630-based wireless PCIe devices (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • MediaTek MT76x0U (USB) support (mt76x0u), adds support for MT7610U-based wireless USB 2.0 dongles (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • MediaTek MT76x2E (PCIe) support (mt76x2e), adds support for MT7612/MT7602/MT7662-based wireless PCIe devices (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • MediaTek MT76x2U (USB) support (mt76x2u), adds support for MT7612U-based wireless USB 3.0 dongles (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • MediaTek MT7921E (PCIe) support (mt7921e), adds support for MT7921E 802.11ax 2x2:2SS wireless devices (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Atheros driver 802.11n HTC based wireless devices (ath9k_htc) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver (brcmsmac) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver utilities (brcmutil) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Broadcom 802.11 wireless LAN fullmac driver (brcmfmac) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Core module for Qualcomm Atheros 802.11ac wireless LAN cards (ath10k_core) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Core module for Qualcomm Atheros 802.11ax wireless LAN cards (ath11k) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Device simulator for WWAN framework (wwan_hwsim)
  • Driver support for Qualcomm Atheros 802.11ac WLAN PCIe/AHB devices (ath10k_pci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Driver support for Qualcomm Technologies 802.11ax WLAN PCIe devices (ath11k_pci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Intel® Wireless Wi-Fi driver for Linux (iwlwifi) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Intel® Wireless Wi-Fi Link AGN driver for Linux (iwldvm)- (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • IOSM Driver (iosm)
  • Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver version 1.0 (mwifiex) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Marvell WiFi-Ex PCI-Express Driver version 1.0 (mwifiex_pcie) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Marvell WiFi-Ex SDIO Driver version 1.0 (mwifiex_sdio) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Marvell WiFi-Ex USB Driver version 1.0 (mwifiex_usb) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • MediaTek PCIe 5G WWAN modem T7xx driver (mtk_t7xx)
  • Network/MBIM over MHI (mhi_wwan_mbim) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • PCI basic driver for rtlwifi (rtl_pci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Ralink RT2800 library version 2.3.0 (rt2800lib) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Ralink RT2800 PCI & PCMCIA Wireless LAN driver version 2.3.0 (rt2800pci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver version 2.3.0 (rt2800usb) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8821c driver (rtw88_8821c) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8821ce driver (rtw88_8821ce) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8822b driver (rtw88_8822b) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8822be driver (rtw88_8822be) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8822c driver (rtw88_8822c) - (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8822ce driver (rtw88_8822ce) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless core module (rtw88_core) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ac wireless PCI driver (rtw88_pci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8852A driver (rtw89_8852a) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8852AE driver (rtw89_8852ae) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8852B driver (rtw89_8852b) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8852BE driver (rtw89_8852be) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless core module (rtw89_core) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless PCI driver (rtw89_pci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11n PCI wireless core (btcoexist) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11n PCI wireless core (rtlwifi) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11n wireless 8723d driver (rtw88_8723d) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 802.11n wireless 8723de driver (rtw88_8723de) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8188E 802.11n PCI wireless (rtl8188ee) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8192C/8188C 802.11n PCI wireless (rtl8192c-common) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8192C/8188C 802.11n PCI wireless (rtl8192ce) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8192C/8188C 802.11n USB wireless (rtl8192cu) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8192DE 802.11n Dual Mac PCI wireless (rtl8192de) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8192EE 802.11n PCI wireless (rtl8192ee) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8192S/8191S 802.11n PCI wireless (rtl8192se) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8723BE 802.11n PCI wireless (rtl8723be) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8723E 802.11n PCI wireless (rtl8723ae) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek 8821ae 802.11ac PCI wireless (rtl8821ae) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Realtek RTL8723AE/RTL8723BE 802.11n PCI wireless common routines (rtl8723-common) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • rt2800 MMIO library version 2.3.0 (rt2800mmio) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • rt2x00 library version 2.3.0 (rt2x00lib) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • rt2x00 mmio library version 2.3.0 ( rt2x00mmio) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • rt2x00 pci library version 2.3.0 ( rt2x00pci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • rt2x00 usb library version 2.3.0 (rt2x00usb) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • RTL8XXXu USB mac80211 Wireless LAN Driver (rtl8xxxu) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Shared library for Atheros wireless 802.11n LAN cards (ath9k_common) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Shared library for Atheros wireless LAN cards (ath) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Support for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN cards (ath9k_hw) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Support for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN cards (ath9k) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • The new Intel® wireless AGN driver for Linux (iwlmvm) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Thunderbolt/USB4 network driver (thunderbolt_net)
  • USB basic driver for rtlwifi (rtl_usb) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)

Graphics drivers and miscellaneous drivers

  • Atheros AR30xx firmware driver 1.0 (ath3k) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • BlueFRITZ! USB driver version 1.2 (bfusb) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Bluetooth HCI UART driver version 2.3 (hci_uart) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Bluetooth support for Broadcom devices version 0.1 (btbcm) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Bluetooth support for Intel devices version 0.1 (btintel) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Bluetooth support for MediaTek devices version 0.1 (btmtk) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Bluetooth support for Realtek devices version 0.1 (btrtl) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Bluetooth virtual HCI driver version 1.5 (hci_vhci) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Broadcom Blutonium firmware driver version 1.2 (bcm203x) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Digianswer Bluetooth USB driver version 0.11 ( bpa10x) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Generic Bluetooth SDIO driver version 0.1 (btsdio) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Generic Bluetooth USB driver version 0.8 (btusb) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Marvell Bluetooth driver version 1.0 (btmrvl) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Marvell BT-over-SDIO driver version 1.0 (btmrvl_sdio) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Linux device driver of the BMC IPMI SSIF interface (ssif_bmc) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • vTPM Driver version 0.1 (tpm_vtpm_proxy)
  • AMD P-state driver Test module (amd-pstate-ut) (only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Compute Express Link (CXL) ACPI driver (cxl_acpi) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Compute Express Link (CXL) core driver (cxl_core)
  • Compute Express Link (CXL) port driver (cxl_port)
  • NVIDIA Tegra GPC DMA Controller driver (tegra186-gpc-dma) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • DRM Buddy Allocator (drm_buddy) (only in 64-bit IBM Z architecture)
  • DRM display adapter helper (drm_display_helper) (only in 64-bit IBM Z architecture)
  • HID driver for EVision devices (hid-evision) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Texas Instruments INA3221 HWMon Driver (ina3221) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • I3C core (i3c) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Silvaco dual-role I3C master driver (svc-i3c-master) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Microsoft Azure Network Adapter IB driver (mana_ib) (only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Soft RDMA transport (rdma_rxe)
  • i.MX8MP interconnect driver - Generic interconnect drivers for i.MX SOCs (imx8mp-interconnect) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Linux USB Video Class (uvc) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Common memory handling routines for videobuf2 (videobuf2-memops) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Device node registration for cec drivers (cec) (only in 64-bit IBM Z architecture)
  • Device node registration for media drivers (mc) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Driver helper framework for Video for Linux 2 (videobuf2-v4l2) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Media buffer core framework (videobuf2-common) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • USB Video Class driver version 1.1.1 (uvcvideo) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • V4L2 DV Timings Helper Functions (v4l2-dv-timings) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Video4Linux2 core driver (videodev) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • vmalloc memory handling routines for videobuf2 (videobuf2-vmalloc) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Framework for SPI NOR (spi-nor) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Marvell CN10K DRAM Subsystem(DSS) PMU (marvell_cn10k_ddr_pmu) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Marvell CN10K LLC-TAD Perf driver (marvell_cn10k_tad_pmu) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • Intel Meteor Lake PCH pinctrl/GPIO driver (pinctrl-meteorlake) (only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • Intel In Field Scan (IFS) device (intel_ifs) (only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • NVIDIA WMI EC Backlight driver (nvidia-wmi-ec-backlight) (only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • QMI encoder/decoder helper (qmi_helpers) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • AMD SoundWire driver (soundwire-amd) (only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • NVIDIA Tegra114 SPI Controller Driver (spi-tegra114) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • STMicroelectronics STUSB160x Type-C controller driver (stusb160x) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)
  • MLX5 VFIO PCI - User Level meta-driver for MLX5 device family (mlx5-vfio-pci)

6.2. Updated drivers

Network driver updates

  • Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based USB Ethernet Adapters (r8152) has been updated to version v1.12.13 (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures).

Storage driver updates

  • Broadcom MegaRAID SAS Driver (megaraid_sas) has been updated to version 07.725.01.00-rc1 (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures).
  • Driver for Microchip Smart Family Controller (smartpqi) has been updated to version 2.1.22-040 (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 0:14.2.0.12 (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 8.4.1.0.0.
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