The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 (UEK R2) is based on the upstream kernel 3.0.36 stable source tree.
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel supports a wide range of hardware and devices. In close cooperation with hardware and storage vendors, the following device drivers have been updated by Oracle in the 2.6.39-400 kernel.
Storage Adapter Drivers
Broadcom
NetXtreme II iSCSI driver (
bnx2i) updated to 2.7.4.1f.NetXtreme II Fibre Channel over Ethernet driver (
bnx2fc) updated to 2.2.17.
Emulex
Blade Engine 2 Open-iSCSI driver (
be2iscsi) updated to 10.0.272.0o.Fibre Channel HBA driver (
lpfc) updated to 8.3.5.86.2p.
Mellanox
ConnectX core driver (
mlx4_core) released at 1.0-ofed1.5.5 (x86_64 only). Handles low-level functions such as device initialization and firmware commands processing, and controls resource allocation so that the InfiniBand and Ethernet functions can share a device without interfering with each other.ConnectX Ethernet driver (
mlx4_en) released at 1.5.4.24 (x86_64 only). Handles Ethernet-specific functions and plugs into the netdev mid-layer.ConnectX InfiniBand driver (
mlx4_ib) released at 1.0-ofed1.5.5 (x86_64 only). Handles InfiniBand-specific functions.
QLogic
Fibre Channel HBA driver (
qla2xxx) updated to 8.04.00.11.39.0-k.iSCSI driver (
qla4xxx) updated to 5.03.00.01.06.02-uek2. Now supports Open-iSCSI.
Network Adapter Drivers
Broadcom
NetXtreme II network adapter driver (
bnx2) updated to 2.2.3e.NetXtreme II 10Gbps network adapter driver (
bnx2x) updated to 1.74.17.Converged Network Interface Card core driver (
cnic) updated to 2.5.12e.Tigon3 Ethernet adapter driver (
tg3) updated to 3.125g.
Emulex
Blade Engine 2 10Gbps adapter driver (
be2net) updated to 4.4.161.0o.
Intel
PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit network adapter driver (
e1000e) updated to 2.1.4-NAPI.Gigabit Ethernet network adapter driver (
igb) updated to 4.0.17.10 Gigabit PCI-Express network adapter driver (
ixgbe) updated to 3.11.33.10 Gigabit Server Adapter virtual function driver (
ixgbevf) updated to 2.6.2-NAPI. The kernel must support Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).
QLogic
NetXen Multiport 1/10 Gigabit Network adapter driver (
netxen_nic) updated to 4.0.80.1/10 GbE Converged/Intelligent Ethernet Adapter driver (
qlcnic) updated to 5.1.27.35.QLE81xx network adapter driver (
qlge) updated to v1.00.00.31.
Miscellaneous Drivers
Oracle
Reliable Datagram Sockets driver (
rds) updated to 4.1. RDS provides in-order, non-duplicated, highly-available, low-overhead, reliable delivery of datagrams between hundreds of thousands of non-connected endpoints.