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On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, Paul Cercueil wrote:

> > Well, run-time patching might be an alternative to get the best of both
> > worlds, but someone would have to reimplement our feature selection system
> > to use it.
> 
> Would run-time patching allow to drop dead code?

 I don't know offhand.  In principle it should be doable like with init 
sections, but that requires out of line code, so there'd still be some 
performance hit compared to a kernel configuration dedicated to a single 
platform.

  Maciej