Chapter 6. Device Drivers

6.1. New drivers

Network drivers

  • MT7921E 802.11ax wireless driver (mt7921e.ko.xz)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless core module (rtw89_core.ko.xz)
  • Realtek 802.11ax wireless PCI driver (rtw89_pci.ko.xz)
  • ntb_netdev (ntb_netdev.ko.xz)
  • Intel® Ethernet Protocol Driver for RDMA (irdma.ko.xz)
  • Intel® PCI-E Non-Transparent Bridge Driver (ntb_hw_intel.ko.xz)

Graphics drivers and miscellaneous drivers

  • Generic Counter interface (counter.ko.xz)
  • Intel Quadrature Encoder Peripheral driver (intel-qep.ko.xz)
  • AMD ® PCIe MP2 Communication Driver (amd_sfh.ko.xz)
  • Driver to initialize some steering wheel joysticks from Thrustmaster (hid-thrustmaster.ko.xz)
  • HID over I2C ACPI driver (i2c-hid-acpi.ko.xz)
  • Intel PMC Core Driver (intel_pmc_core.ko.xz)
  • ThinkLMI Driver (think-lmi.ko.xz)
  • Processor Thermal Reporting Device Driver (int3401_thermal.ko.xz)
  • Processor Thermal Reporting Device Driver (processor_thermal_device_pci.ko.xz)
  • Processor Thermal Reporting Device Driver (processor_thermal_device_pci_legacy.ko.xz)
  • TI TPS6598x USB Power Delivery Controller Driver (tps6598x.ko.xz)

6.2. Updated drivers

Network drivers

  • Intel® PRO/1000 Network Driver (e1000e.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® Ethernet Switch Host Interface Driver (fm10k.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver (i40e.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function Network Driver (iavf.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver (igb.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® Gigabit Virtual Function Network Driver (igbvf.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® 2.5G Ethernet Linux Driver (igc.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver (ixgbe.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Intel® 10 Gigabit Virtual Function Network Driver (ixgbevf.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • Mellanox 5th generation network adapters (ConnectX series) core driver (mlx5_core.ko.xz) has been updated.
  • VMware vmxnet3 virtual NIC driver (vmxnet3.ko.xz) has been updated to version 1.6.0.0-k.

Storage drivers

  • Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver (lpfc.ko.xz) has been updated to version 0:14.0.0.4.
  • Broadcom MegaRAID SAS Driver (megaraid_sas.ko.xz) has been updated to version 07.719.03.00-rh1.
  • LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 Device Driver (mpt3sas.ko.xz) has been updated to version 39.100.00.00.
  • QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver (qla2xxx.ko.xz) has been updated to version 10.02.06.200-k.
  • Driver for Microchip Smart Family Controller (smartpqi.ko.xz) has been updated to version 2.1.12-055.

Graphics and miscellaneous driver updates

  • Standalone drm driver for the VMware SVGA device (vmwgfx.ko.xz) has been updated to version 2.18.1.0.