Users Guide

7–Linux Driver Software
Packaging
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RHEL5.4 and later has special backported code to support the C-NIC driver;
these distributions are supported.
bnx2x Driver Limitations
The current version of the driver has been tested on 2.6.x kernels, starting from
the 2.6.9 kernel. The bnx2x driver may not compile on kernels older than 2.6.9.
Testing is concentrated on i386 and x86_64 architectures. Only limited testing has
been done on some other architectures. Minor changes to some source files and
the makefile may be needed on some kernels.
bnx2i Driver Limitations
The current version of the driver has been tested on 2.6.x kernels, starting from
the 2.6.18 kernel. The bnx2i driver may not compile on older kernels. Testing is
concentrated on i386 and x86_64 architectures.
bnx2fc Driver Limitations
The current version of the driver has been tested on 2.6.x kernels, starting from
the 2.6.32 kernel, which is included in RHEL 6.1 distribution. The bnx2fc driver
may not compile on older kernels. Testing was limited to i386 and x86_64
architectures.
Packaging
The Linux drivers are released in the following packaging formats:
Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) Packages
 netxtreme2-version.dkms.noarch.rpm
 netxtreme2-version.dkms.src.rpm
Kernel Module Packages (KMP)
 SLES
 netxtreme2-kmp-[kernel]-version.i586.rpm
 netxtreme2-kmp-[kernel]-version.x86_64.rpm
 Red Hat
 kmod-kmp-netxtreme2-{kernel]-version.i686.rpm
 kmod-kmp-netxtreme2-{kernel]-version.x86_64.rpm
The QLogic Control Suite (QCS) CLI management utility is also distributed as an
RPM package (QCS-{version}.{arch}.rpm).