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