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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Why is AHCI statically compiled into kernel?</H1>
    <B>Thomas Backlund</B> 
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<PRE>R James skrev 5.3.2013 19:34:
&gt;<i> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Backlund &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>
</I>&gt;<i> &lt;mailto:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>&gt;&gt; wrote:
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</I>&gt;<i>     It's needed to be able to boot new hw without need for initrd.
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</I>&gt;<i>     <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:BootSansRamdisk">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:BootSansRamdisk</A>
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</I>&gt;<i> Ah, I didn't know about that. It seems like the target systems will need
</I>&gt;<i> to be simple AND have ahci compliant boot controllers. Otherwise a bunch
</I>&gt;<i> of SATA drivers will need to be statically compiled in kinda like the
</I>&gt;<i> old IDE days. It'll be interesting to see how many users complain
</I>&gt;<i> because they &quot;think&quot; they shouldn't need an initrd... :o)
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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 &quot;rest of the hw support&quot; got left as 
modules.

Now this feature &quot;booting without initrd&quot; is obviously targetted for
laptops/netbooks &amp; desktops where people care about fast boot.

For servers (&amp; 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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