New or Updated Drivers

These driver features were new or revised in the Solaris Express 10/04 release.

bge Gigabit Ethernet Driver for Broadcom bcm57xx

The Solaris Express 10/04 release provided an enhanced bge driver to support Broadcom 5700/5701/5705/5782 gigabit Ethernet chipsets.

For further information, see the bge(7D) man page.

asy Handles IXON/IXOFF in Driver

This feature enables a quick response for software flow control on x86 platforms. This quick response avoids situations where asy can stall because an XOFF or XON character is embedded in pending data.

For further information, see the asy(7D) man page.

ECP Parallel Port Driver

The lp driver that was originally used for parallel print ports on x86 platforms lacked Enterprise CRM Platform (ECP) mode support. The new ECPP driver provides a robust parallel port driver with ECP mode support for x86 systems.

For further information, see the ecpp(7D) man page.

UHCI Driver Enhancement

An interrupt-out transfer has been added to the new Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) driver for x86 platforms. This new feature enables users to transfer urgent data to the devices through Interrupt Out in a high priority.

Other new features provided by the new UHCI driver include the following:

• BULK short transfer

• Port enumeration

• Multiple BULK transfer

• Isoc IN transfer

• BULK IN transfer

In the Solaris 10 3/05 release, the UHCI driver is available for the both x86 and SPARC platforms.

For further information, see the uhci(7D) man page.

Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controllers Support

Software support of Adaptec AdvancedRAID controllers has been added for x86 platforms. This feature enables you to utilize SCSI RAID disk arrays both as data drives and as boot drives. SCSI CD-ROM, DVD, or tapes are not supported, nor are online configurations.

For further information, see the aac(7D) man page.

Dell/LSI SCSI RAID PERC Controllers Support

Software support of Dell/LSI SCSI RAID PERC controllers has been added for x86 platforms. This feature enables users to utilize SCSI RAID disk arrays both as data drives and as boot drives. SCSI CD-ROM, DVD, or tapes are not supported, nor are online configurations.

For further information, see the amr(7D) man page.

Realtek RTL8139 NIC Support

This Solaris 10 OS provides x86 platform support for the Realtek fast Ethernet chipset RTL8139.

For further information, see the rtls(7D) man page.

audio810 Audio Driver

The audio810 device driver has been added for x86 platforms. This driver supports the audio controllers that are embedded in the Intel ICH3, ICH4, ICH5, and AMD 8111 southbridge chips. This driver supports Solaris audio mixer interfaces, and enables users to utilize audio hardware to play back or record sound.

For further information, see the audio810(7D) man page.

SATA Controllers Support

Software support of selected SATA controllers was added for x86 platforms. This feature allows users to utilize Serial ATA Hard Drives both as data drives and as boot drives.

For further information, see the ata(7D) man page.