Why is AHCI built-in?

[poma]

On 19.08.2013 20:46, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Any links/docs to offer on this topic?
Thanks.


poma