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Solaris 10 What's New

New and Updated Drivers

The following drivers have been added or enhanced in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

x86: SATA HBA Framework Support

This driver is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

The Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) HBA framework project delivers a generic SATA framework for the Marvell 88SX60xx, Marvell 88SX50xx, and the Silicon Image 3124 controllers. The new SATA HBA drivers and framework provide native support for accessing SATA controllers and disks. These drivers provide features, such as hot plugging and queueing of multiple commands that are unique to SATA. These SATA drivers interface with the sd (target disk) driver and support the sd functionality.

For more information, see the following man pages:

USB-to-Serial Driver for Prolific Adapters

This driver is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

This USB-to-serial driver supports Prolific pl2303 chipset-based adapters. With this new driver, customers can choose between Edgeport adapters and Prolific adapters.

For more information, see usbsprl(7D) man page.

Driver for IEEE 1394-Based (IIDC) Digital Cameras

This driver is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

This driver enables support of IEEE 1394-based (IIDC) digital cameras. By supporting a software interface for camera control and image capture, the driver also enables development of applications that attach to these devices. This driver supports devices that implement the 1.04 version of the 1394 Trade Association 1394-based Digital Camera Specification. Support also covers devices that are backwards compatible.

For more information, refer to the dcam1394(7D) man page.

Driver Support for the New STK Tape Drive 10000 “Titanium”

This driver support is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

This release enables the st (SCSI tape) driver to support the new StorageTek tape drive T10000A Titanium.

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

USB-to-Serial Driver for Keyspan Adapters

This driver is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

A new driver is provided in the release for Keyspan USB-to-serial adapters. This driver supports the USA-19HS model. With this new driver, customers have a choice between Edgeport adapters and Keyspan adapters.

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

Deimos Cryptographic Accelerator

This driver support is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

The DCA driver supports Sun's SCA1000 and SCA500 cryptographic accelerator cards. Additionally, the driver will support Broadcom's 5820, 5821, and 5822 cards.

All of these cards support the following operations:

The driver acts as cryptographic service provider to the Solaris Cryptographic Framework. The driver can be used by anyone who uses this framework.

x86: Driver Support for AMD64 Platform

This driver support is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

In this release, the glm driver has been ported to the x64 platform. This driver enables you to use the x4422a card on the AMD64 platform.

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

rge Driver

This driver support is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release. The rge driver provides support for Realtek RTL8169S/8110S Gigabit Ethernet devices.

For further information, refer to the rge(7D) man page.

Chelsio NIC Driver Support

In the Solaris 10 6/06 release, the chxge driver supports the Chelsio 10G Ethernet controller card. This support is provided on 32–bit and 64–bit architectures for both x86 and SPARC platforms. This driver supports the DLPI interface and checksum offload.

For detailed information, see the chxge(7D) man page.

HBA Drivers

These driver enhancements have been added to the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

The following HBA drivers have been added to the Solaris OS to support the full family of QLogic and Emulex HBA products. These products include both Sun and non-Sun HBAs:

These HBA drivers provide a selection of choices with a single fibre-channel implementation. The supported HBAs are Solaris Ready-certified and enable PCI-X and PCIe 4-Gbyte HBA support.

For further information, refer to the following links: