Chapter 6. Device Drivers

6.1. New drivers

Network drivers

  • Thunderbolt/USB4 network driver (thunderbolt_net)
  • Broadcom 802.11 wireless LAN fullmac driver (brcmfmac) (only in 64-bit ARM architecture)

Graphics drivers and miscellaneous drivers

  • Bluetooth support for MediaTek devices ver 0.1 (btmtk), only in IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • 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
  • Microsoft Azure Network Adapter IB driver (mana_ib), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • The Linux USB Video Class driver (uvc), (only in IBM Power Systems, Little Endian and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • 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
  • Intel Uncore Frequency Common Module (intel-uncore-frequency-common), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel Uncore Frequency Limits Driver (intel-uncore-frequency), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • AMD SoundWire driver (soundwire-amd), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • DisplayPort Alternate Mode (typec_displayport), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Virtio-mem driver (virtio_mem), only in AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures

6.2. Updated drivers

Network driver updates

  • Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based USB Ethernet Adapters (r8152) have 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)

The following drivers have been updated to 4.18.0-513.5.1 kernel version:

  • Intel® 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver (ixgbe), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® 10 Gigabit Virtual Function Network Driver (ixgbevf), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® 2.5G Ethernet Linux Driver (igc), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function Network Driver (iavf), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver (i40e), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® Ethernet Switch Host Interface Driver (fm10k), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver (igb), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® Gigabit Virtual Function Network Driver (igbvf), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Intel® PRO/1000 Network Driver (e1000e), only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
  • Mellanox 5th generation network adapters (ConnectX series) core driver (mlx5_core)
  • The Netronome Flow Processor (NFP) driver (nfp)

Graphics, storage, and miscellaneous 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 version (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 0:14.0.0.21 (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 (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)
  • QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver (qla2xxx) has been updated to version 10.02.08.200-k (only in 64-bit ARM architecture, IBM Power Systems, Little Endian, and AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures)