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1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release
Support for Two-Terabyte Memory Systems
System Administration Enhancements
SPARC: Support for Fast Reboot
User-Level CMT Observability Tools
Solaris Volume Manager Data Recovery
Oracle Solaris Groups Functionality
x86: Generic FMA Topology Enumerator
System Performance Enhancements
Tunable Parameter for Flash Devices in the sd.conf Configuration File
x86: Oracle Solaris I/O Interrupt Framework Enhancement for Nehalem-EX Platforms
Support for IPv6 NAT on IPFilter
x86: Jumbo Frame Support in the bnx Driver
PKCS#11 Provider for Oracle Key Manager
Support for AES Cipher Suites in the KSSL
Assigning a New Password Does Not Unlock a Locked Account
Password Construction Policy Applies to the root User by Default
Samba Upgrade to Version 3.5.8
x86: Bash Upgrade to Version 3.2
Apache C++ Standard Library Version 4 Support
Support for New Devices in the ixgbe Driver
Support for New Devices in the igb Driver
Support for LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) Devices in the e1000g Driver
Support for New Devices in the bge Driver
Support for New Device in the qlcnic Driver
Support for New Device in the mcxnex/mcxe Driver
Support for New Devices in the scu Driver
x86: Support for LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA Device
Support for Public GLD Interfaces in the bge Driver
Support for MSI in the bge Driver
This section describes new devices that have been added in this release.
The Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet ixgbe(7D) driver supports the following two devices:
Intel 82599 (Niantic) Copper 10GBase-T devices (8086, 151c)
Intel x540/x540T series (Twinville) 10GbE devices (8086, 1512 and 8086, 1528)
The Intel 1 Gigabit Ethernet igb(7D) driver supports the following devices:
Intel 82576 (Kawela) Quad-port Copper ET2 1000Base-T devices (8086, 1526)
Intel 82580 (Barton Hills) Quad-port Fibre 1GbE devices (8086, 1527)
Intel i350 (Powerville) Copper 1000Base-T devices (8086, 1521)
Intel i350 (Powerville) Fibre 1GbE devices (8086, 1522)
Intel i350 (Powerville) SERDES 1GbE devices (8086, 1523 and 8086, 1524)
The Intel 1 Gigabit Ethernet e1000g(7D) driver supports the following Intel 82579LM/LF (Lewisville) 1 GbE LOM controllers:
8086, 1502
8086, 1503
8086, 1506
8086, 1519
The Broadcom 1 Gigabit Ethernet bge(7D) driver supports the following network devices:
Broadcom NetXtreme/NetLink BCM5717 Dual-Port Copper device (0x1655)
Broadcom NetXtreme/NetLink BCM5724 Single-Port Copper device (0x165C)
Broadcom NetLink BCM57780 device
The QLogic P3+ FCoE CNA Ethernet qlcnic(7D) driver supports the QLogic P3+ FCoE CNA device.
The Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 Gigabit Ethernet mcxnex/mcxe(7D) driver supports the Mellanox ConnectX-2 GLDv3 based networking device. The device ID for the current support is pciex15b3,6750.
The Intel Patsburg Storage Controller Unit scu(7D) driver supports the following Intel SCU SAS/SATA devices:
8086, 1d60
8086, 1d61
8086, 1d64
8086, 1d65
8086, 1d68
8086, 1d69
The imraid_sas(7D) driver supports the LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA device.
The mpt_sas(7D) driver supports the LSI SAS 2308 HBA storage device.
The mr_sas(7D) driver supports the LSI SAS 2208 HBA device.