Now that I'm packaging Mu with a fork of bleeding-edge Linux, I have a tiger by the tail. I need to stay abreast of changes from upstream or risk bitrot, particularly as new security vulnerabilities are uncovered and patched.

I'm going to start changing the kernel soon, and I need a way to not kill myself merging patches from upstream. For starters: aggressively delete code Mu doesn't need. That'll reduce merge conflicts.

In the first run I just deleted non-x86 architectures. So far so good.

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