Avago Technologies LSI SAS 3041E-R - Manual (Page 70)

3-30 UNIX Operating System Device Drivers
Version 1.3 Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
For all other releases, the bundled driver must be used for installation.
Post-installation upgrades are possible by using the driver RPM.
Use these commands on the ftp site:
ftp> cd 2.06.24
ftp> cd mptlinux-rpms
Download the README_rpms.txt file to obtain a listing of the kernels
supported by the RPM.
3.5.3.2 Adding Pre-Compiled Binaries to an Existing Installation
Driver binaries are provided in 1.44-MB images that are suitably
formatted to use as driver update disks for the following platforms:
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Red Hat 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 (32 bit and 64 bit), 7.3, and 2.1ASE
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SuSE 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0
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Caldera 3.1 and 3.1.1
And in RPMS:
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Red Hat i686: 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, 2.1ASE
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Red Hat ia64: 7.2, 2.1ASE
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SuSE x86: 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, SLES8
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SuSE x86_64: SLES8
RPMs should be used to upgrade the driver post-install.
The RPMs contain binaries for the install kernel and the latest released
errata kernel for each distribution at the time the RPM was created. The
README_rpms.txt file has a listing of the kernels supported by the RPM.
The update disks should be used for architectures that are not supported
by RPM.
The RPMs contain binaries for the install kernel and the latest released
errata kernel for each distribution at the time the RPM was created. The
README_rpms.txt file to obtain a listing of the kernels supported by the
RPM. The update disks should be used for architectures not supported
by RPM.