New and Updated Drivers

The following driver enhancements have been added to the Solaris 10 1/06 release. To view driver features that are new in the previous Solaris 10 3/05 release, see New or Updated Drivers.

SPARC: Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator

This driver is new in the Solaris 10 1/06 release.

This release introduces the kfb driver that supports the XVR-2500 graphic board. For further information, see the SUNWkfb_config(1M) and kfb(7D) man pages.

SCSI HBA Driver for LSI MegaRAID 320-2x SCSI RAID Controller

This driver is new in the Solaris Express 8/05 release and in the Solaris 10 1/06 release.

This release introduces the lsimega driver. The LSI 320-2x card is supported by lsimega with back-end support from LSI. Sun Fire V20z/V40z servers with the optional 320-2x RAID card receive better support for RAID disk I/O and passthrough I/O for SCSI tape and CDROM.

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

USB CCID IFD Handler

This driver is new in the Solaris Express 8/05 release and in the Solaris 10 1/06 release.

This release delivers a userland device driver for USB CCID-compliant smart card readers. This feature uses the USB CCID IFD Handler that is part of the MUSCLE project. With this feature integrated into Solaris, customers can now use a wide variety of USB smart card readers on Solaris systems that have USB ports.

For further information, see the usb_ccid_ifd(3SMARTCARD) man page.

More documentation is available at the public MUSCLE card web site at http://www.musclecard.com.

New nge Driver

In the Solaris 10 1/06 release, the nge driver supports the NVIDIA CK8–04 gigabit Ethernet interface. See the nge(7D) man page.