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AlmaLinux 8.10 Released With Support Re-Enabled For Some Older Hardware

For those continuing to rely on the Enterprise Linux 8 series, AlmaLinux 8.10 has made its stable debut this morning as the newest version of this community-oriented operating system derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10.

For the moment this differentiation in hardware support comes down to cases where just the device PCI IDs need to be added back into the drivers for the AlmaLinux kernel builds. The hardware support that's been deprecated in upstream RHEL but re-enabled in AlmaLinux 8.10 include the following drivers and hardware: aacraid - Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI be2iscsi - Emulex OneConnect Open-iSCSI for BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters be2net - Emulex BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters hpsa - HP Smart Array Controller lpfc - Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI megaraid_sas - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS mlx4_core - Mellanox Gen2 and ConnectX-2 adapters mpt3sas - LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 mptsas - Fusion MPT SAS Host qla2xxx - QLogic Fibre Channel HBA qla4xxx - QLogic iSCSI HBA AlmaLinux 8.10 downloads for x86_64 / AArch64 / PPC64LE / s390x along with more details on this RHEL 8.10 downstream can be found via AlmaLinux.org.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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