[Mageia-dev] Why is AHCI statically compiled into kernel?

Tue Mar 5 19:10:20 CET 2013

R James skrev 5.3.2013 19:34:
+> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org
+> <mailto:tmb at mageia.org>> wrote:
+>
+>
+>     It's needed to be able to boot new hw without need for initrd.
+>
+>     https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:BootSansRamdisk
+>
+>
+> Ah, I didn't know about that. It seems like the target systems will need
+> to be simple AND have ahci compliant boot controllers. Otherwise a bunch
+> of SATA drivers will need to be statically compiled in kinda like the
+> old IDE days. It'll be interesting to see how many users complain
+> because they "think" they shouldn't need an initrd... :o)
+>
+
+yeah, we / I  chose to make only AHCI builtin as pretty much all new hw
+coming out theese days are ahci-compliant, so it works out of the box.
+
+And to not bloat the kernel the "rest of the hw support" got left as 
+modules.
+
+Now this feature "booting without initrd" is obviously targetted for
+laptops/netbooks & desktops where people care about fast boot.
+
+For servers (& bigger workstations) where you rely on SCSI / SAS  / FC / 
+.... you still need initrds, and usually you dont really care if a
+boot take a little longer.
+
+--
+Thomas
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