Installation guide

All Architectures

• The following Wacom graphics tablets are now supported through the linuxwacom drivers:

• Cintiq 20WSX

• Intuos3 4x6

• the lpfc driver for Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters has been updated to version

8.2.0.33.2p. This applies several upstream changes, most notably:

• the NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT socket is now used

• Resolved uninitialized node access.

• fixed a bug that caused echotest failure when NPIV is enabled.

• fcauthd 1.19 is now required for fibre channel authentication.

• dm-multipath now has inbox support for IBM DS4000.

• The ixgbe driver now supports the 82598AT dual-port adapter and the 82598 CX4 adapter.

• the jsm driver has been updated to add support for Digi Neo PCI Express 4 HiProfile I/O

adapters.

• hp-ilo: driver added, providing support for HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO) technology.

• The radeon_tp driver is now fully supported in this release. This driver enables the ATI R500/R600

chipsets.

This driver also features the following capabilities:

• Modesetting on R500/R600 chipsets

• 2D acceleration on R500 chipsets

• Shadow framebuffer acceleration on R600 chipsets

• The powernow-k8 driver is now included in this release as a loadable module. This ensures that

existing driver frameworks (such as the Red Hat Driver Update Model and Dell DKMS) can deliver

powernow-k8 driver updates to users as RPM packages without requiring them to upgrade the

kernel.

• For this release, Red Hat is re-adding pnm2ppa in order to provide support for legacy printers. Note,

however, that this support is deprecated and will be discontinued in future major releases.

• The ccid driver has been re-based to add support for USB Smartcard keyboards.

• the uvcvideo drivers for USB video devices has been added to the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 5.3.

Network

• The bnx2 driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme II network cards has been updated to version 1.7.9.

This update fixes the ethernet ring buffer options on controllers that use bnx2 to fix a bug that

caused the system to panic at boot.

• The e1000e driver for Intel PRO/1000 ethernet devices has been updated to the upstream version

0.3.3.3-k2. With this update, the EEPROM and NVM of supported devices are now write-protected.