Well, no, not necessary. This can be PnP card which has to be
initialized before it is loaded or it is too late. A module is here
a very reasonable option. Otherwise one would have to do some
pretty inconvenient stuff with initrd.
Besides who is to say that a driver will hold to a physical memory
allocated on bootup?
--mj
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