Intel AHWKPTP12GBGB Bridge Board RAID Driver 7.708.03.00 for Linux

Defects Fixed

- Retpoline compilation support for MR Linux drivers for Spectre_v2 vulnerability
- Enable irq poll in Linux driver to avoid CPU hard and soft lockups
- Improvement in driver debugging
- Driver compilation fails on latest upstream kernel(>= v4.17), due to changes in "queue_flag_set_unlocked" API
- Global SMP affinity setting is disabled incorrectly by driver under certain conditions
- Disable WRITE SAME commands from host for zeroout block ranges operations
- Ubuntu 18.04 OS package description is mentioned as SAS 2.0
- Lock access to controller's PCI config space from user space while Diag reset operation is going on
- During probe, locking PCI config space while doing adp_reset is applicable to all fusion based controllers

Enhancements
- Add SLES 15 OS Support
- Add RHEL 6.10 Support
- Add async support for RHEL7.6 GA (available in a separate package)

About SATA / AHCI / RAID Drivers:

When you install an operating system, SATA settings (be it AHCI, RAID, or IDE mode) are detected from the BIOS. If you want to change from one mode to another after the OS has been applied, appropriate drivers are required.

Bear in mind that if you modify these settings without installing proper files first, the operating system will not be able to boot until changes are reverted or required drivers are applied.

To perform the latter task, get the package, run the available setup and follow the instructions displayed on-screen for a complete installation. Afterwards, perform a system reboot so that all changes take effect, enter BIOS menu, and set the SATA option to the mode that best describes the newly applied drivers.

So, if you intend to modify the SATA settings to the mode described by this release, click the download button, and make the desired changes. In addition to that, don't forget to constantly check with our website so that you don't miss a single new release.