Why is AHCI built-in?

[Kyle McMartin]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:35:16PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 08/19/2013 01:19 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > because it's commonly used and found on basically every machine now.
> > there are many advantages to having it built in that outweigh the cons.
> 
> A couple of questions:
> 
> - What are the advantages of having the driver built-in, as compared to
>   simply ensuring that it's always included in the initramfs?
> 

performance, you'll take fewer tlb misses.

> - Was this change discussed anywhere?
> 

among the fedora kernel team at plumbers conf in 2008.

--kyle