Chapter 6. Device drivers

6.1. New drivers
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Table 6.1. Character device drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
SNP SVSM vTPM Driver	tpm_svsm	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.2. CPU frequency drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
Virtual cpufreq driver	virtual-cpufreq	64-bit ARM architecture

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Table 6.3. DMA drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
AMD AE4DMA driver	ae4dma	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
AMD PassThru DMA driver	ptdma	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.4. Firmware control drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
fwctl device firmware access framework	fwctl
mlx5 ConnectX fwctl driver	mlx5_fwctl

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Table 6.5. Graphics drivers and miscellaneous drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
Chrontel ch7006 TV encoder driver	ch7006	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Cirrus driver for QEMU emulated device	cirrus-qemu	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
In-kernel DRM clients	drm_client_lib
NXP Semiconductors TDA998X HDMI Encoder	tda998x	64-bit ARM architecture
Quirks for panel backlight overrides	drm_panel_backlight_quirks	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Silicon Image sil164 TMDS transmitter driver	sil164	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.6. HID drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
Intel® Intel THC Hardware Driver	intel-thc	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Intel® QuickI2C Driver	intel-quicki2c	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Intel® QuickSPI Driver	intel-quickspi	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.7. Media drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
Conexant cx231xx based USB video device driver - 0.0.3	cx231xx	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Conexant CX25840 audio/video decoder driver	cx25840	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
cx23415/6/8 driver	cx2341x	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
device driver for various TV and TV+FM radio tuners	tuner	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
i2c Hauppauge eeprom decoder driver	tveeprom	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.8. Network drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
Intel® MLD wireless driver for Linux	iwlmld	64-bit ARM architecture, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Socket CAN device driver for Geschwister Schneider Technologie- Entwicklungs- und Vertriebs UG. USB2.0 to CAN interfaces and bytewerk.org candleLight USB CAN interfaces.	gs_usb	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.9. Platform drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver	amd_3d_vcache	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Intel Extended Capabilities auxiliary bus driver	intel-vsec	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Intel Oaktrail Platform ACPI Extras - 0.4ac1	intel-oaktrail	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Intel On Demand (SDSi) driver	intel-sdsi	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Intel TPMI enumeration module	intel-vsec_tpmi	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Intel TPMI PLR Driver	intel-plr_tpmi	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
ISH ISHTP eclite client opregion driver	intel-ishtp_eclite	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
lis3lv02d i2c-client instantiation for ACPI SMO88xx devices	dell-lis3lv02d	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
TPMI Power Domains Mapping	intel-tpmi_power_domains	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.10. Power management domain drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
ARM SCMI power domain driver	scmi_pm_domain	64-bit ARM architecture
ARM SCPI power domain driver	scpi_pm_domain	64-bit ARM architecture

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Table 6.11. USB drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
Thunderbolt3 USB Type-C Alternate Mode	typec_thunderbolt	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.12. Virtio drivers
Description	Name	Limited to architectures
Virtio-mem driver	virtio_mem	IBM Z

6.2. Updated drivers
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Table 6.13. Accelerator driver updates
Description	Name	Current version	Limited to architectures
Driver for Intel NPU (Neural Processing Unit)	intel_vpu	1.0.0 (5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7.x86_64)	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.14. Platform driver updates
Description	Name	Current version	Limited to architectures
Driver for updating BIOS image on DELL systems	dell_rbu	3.3	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

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Table 6.15. Storage driver updates
Description	Name	Current version	Limited to architectures
Broadcom MegaRAID SAS Driver	megaraid_sas	07.734.00.00-rc1	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Cisco FCoE HBA Driver	fnic	1.8.0.2	AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Driver for Microchip Smart Family Controller	smartpqi	2.1.34-035	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver	lpfc	0:14.4.0.9	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 Device Driver	mpt3sas	52.100.00.00	64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
MPI3 Storage Controller Device Driver	mpi3mr	8.15.0.5.50

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