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Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> writes:
> OK. So maybe when the petitboot kernel moves up to 4.14 they may want to
> flip it back to being a module.

Yeah. We tend to keep all RAID adapters as modules because they almost
all uniquely try to undo all boot time optimization done by anybody,
anywhere, ever.

> I think the majority of machines that have one of these adapters will be
> using it for their root disk, so I think the slow initialisation is just
> something we have to suffer.

It does seem that way currently.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.