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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:40:08AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> I was planning to look at the x86 cpu features to see whether some of
> those might be candidates to be switched to platform features instead.

I'd say "never touch a running system" unless the platform features are
of an advantage...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette