Installation guide

Release Notes

1.2. Resolved Issues

• system-config-network requires the fonts provided with xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 in order

to display. However, this fonts package was not previously set as a dependency for system-

config-network and it was therefore possible (for example, in the case of a minimal installation)

for system-config-network to be present on a system and yet unable to function because these

fonts were missing. This update sets xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 as a dependency for system-

config-network to ensure that these fonts will be available and that system-config-network

will display correctly.

• In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, a 64-bit version of httpd was included in addition to the existing

32-bit httpd in the PowerPC architecture. If a user installed both versions, an httpd conflict would

occur, preventing httpd from functioning properly.

To resolve this issue, the 64-bit version of httpd has been removed from this release. Any systems

with the previous 64-bit version of httpd installed should remove the package before upgrade.

1.3. Driver Updates

• the SCSI device handler infrastructure (scsi_dh) has been updated, providing added support for

LSI RDAC SCSI based storage devices.

• the tg3 driver for Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet devices has been updated to version 3.93. This applies

several upstream changes for new hardware. However, the 5785 hardware is not fully supported.

This device may be detected by the driver, but lack of PHY support may cause these chips to not

function correctly and may require the user disable any on-board 5785 cards in the system BIOS.

• scsi-target-utils now features iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER), which is based on

the Linux Target (tgt) framework. iSER is included in this release as a Technology Preview, and

provides capabilities for both single and multiple portals on different subnets. Note, however, that

there are known bugs with using multiple portals on the same subnet.

To set up an iSER target component, install the scsi-target-utils and libibverbs-

devel packages. The corresponding library package for your system's Infiniband hardware is also

required. For example, in HCAs that use the cxgb3 driver the libcxgb3 package is needed, and

for HCAs using the mthca driver the libmthca package is need.

• The MPT Fusion driver has been updated to version 3.04.06, providing the following bugfixes and

enhancements:

• Previously, the MPT Fusion driver always allocated I/O resources, even if they were not required,

which may have caused issues in low resource environments. With this update, the driver now

uses the pci_enable_device_mem and pci_enable_device functions to differentiate the resource

allocations.

• Previously, the kernel would panic when the mptsas and mptcl modules were loaded in parallel.

With this update, this issue has been resolved.

• Previously, system power state changes (such as hibernation and standby) were not functioning

correctly with 106XE controllers. With this update, the driver has been modified to free and

allocate resources in power management entry points.