MPT Fusion Linux OS Driver Release Notes
Driver Version: mptlinux-4.18.00.00-1
02/03/2009

Compatibility:
53C1020, 53C1030, 53C1035 (Scsi Mode)
FC909, FC919, FC929
FC919X, FC929X, FC929XL, FC939X, FC949X, FC949ES
SAS 1064, 1068
SAS 1064E, 1068E, 1078E

Special Notes For This Build:
No special notes available at this time.


Current Errata

These drivers do not include disk dump support that is sometimes added  by certain distro's.
This appears to be replaced by kdump. Here is help for using kdump: http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/
Kdump doesnt work for flashless controllers.

Fusion.mptctl will not be provided on RHEL5 Gold DUDs, nor KMP RPMS.  This is the service script that autoloads the mptctl driver.  You will find this only on SLES10 DUDS,RHEL5 Update 1 DUDS and generic RPMS(found in rpm-1 folder). Due to increase in size of KMOD based DUD, the RHEL5 U1 DUD can be used only with thumb drives and Floppy based DUD is not supported from RHEL5 U1 onwards.

Driver Release Package Contents

Source tarball

	Source tarball is named as: mptlinux-<version>-src.tar.gz

	where:
	<version>	=	version tag for this rpm

RPM Binaries:

RPM images are named as:  mptlinux-<version>-<release>-<os>.<arch>.rpm

	where:
	<version>	=	version tag for this rpm
	<release>	=	release tag for this rpm
	<os>		=	{rhel5, sles10}
	<arch>	=	ia64 - Itanium Processor
	  			x86_64 - Opteron Processor, w/ x86_64 install
				i686 - i686 or later processor (Red Hat)
				i586 - x86 installations (SuSE)
				ppc Power PC (64 bit)
Driver Update Disks

dud images are named : mptlinux-<version>-<release>-<os>.<arch>.dd.gz

	where:
	<version>	=	version tag for this rpm
	<release>	=	release tag for this rpm
	<os>		=	{rhel5, sles10}
	<arch>	=	ia64 - Itanium Processor
	  			x86_64 - Opteron Processor, w/ x86_64 install
				i686 - i686 or later processor (Red Hat)
				i586 - x86 installations (SuSE)
				ppc Power PC (64 bit)

DKMS

DKMS tarball is named : mptlinux-<version>-<release>.dkms.tar.gz

	where:
	<version>	=	version tag for this rpm
	<release>	=	release tag for this rpm

This is an rpm that provide prebuilt binaries for major releases, and will compile drivers on the fly for the other kernels.  Here is help on dkms: http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms.html

SRPMS

SRPM images are named mptlinux-<version>-<release>.src.rpm

	where:
	<version>	=	version tag for this rpm
	<release>	=	release tag for this rpm


SuSE:


i686
	SLES 10
		Gold (2.6.16.21-0.8)	(bigsmp, debug, default, kdump, smp, xen)
	SLES 10 SP1
		Gold (2.6.16.46-0.12)	(bigsmp, debug, default, kdump, smp, xen)
	SLES 10 SP2
		Gold (2.6.16.60-0.21)	(bigsmp, debug, default, kdump, smp, xen)
x86_64

	SLES10
		Gold (2.6.16.21-0.8)	(debug, default, kdump, smp, xen)
	SLES10 SP1
		Gold (2.6.16.46-0.12)	(debug, default, kdump, smp, xen)
	SLES 10 SP2
		Gold (2.6.16.60-0.21)	(debug, default, kdump, smp, xen)
ia64
	SLES10
		Gold (2.6.16.21-0.8)	(debug, default)
	SLES10 SP1
		Gold (2.6.16.46-0.12)	(debug, default)
	SLES 10 SP2
		Gold (2.6.16.60-0.21)	(debug, default)

ppc

	SLES10
		Gold (2.6.16.21-0.8)	(debug, default, iseries64, ppc64)
	SLES10 SP1
		Gold (2.6.16.46-0.12)	(debug, default, iseries64, ppc64)
	SLES 10 SP2
		Gold (2.6.16.60-0.21) 	(debug, default, iseries64, ppc64)


Red Hat:

i686
	RHEL5
		Gold (2.6.18-8)				(el5, el5PAE, el5xen
		Update 1 (2.6.18-53)			(el5, el5PAE, el5xen, el5debug)
		Update 2 (2.6.18-92)			(el5, el5PAE, el5xen, el5debug)

x86_64

	RHEL5
		Gold (2.6.18-8)				(el5, el5xen)
		Update 1 (2.6.18-53)			(el5, el5xen, el5debug)
		Update 2 (2.6.18-92)			(el5, el5xen, el5debug)

ia64
	RHEL5
		Gold (2.6.18-8)				(el5, el5xen)
		Update 1 (2.6.18-53)			(el5, el5xen, el5debug)
		Update 2 (2.6.18-92)			(el5, el5xen, el5debug)
ppc
	RHEL5
		Gold (2.6.18-8)				(el5, el5kdump)
		Update 1 (2.6.18-53)			(el5, el5kdump, el5debug)
		Update 2 (2.6.18-92)			(el5, el5kdump, el5debug)

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