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-UBUNTU: SAUCE: Revert "fbdev: Make registered_fb[] private to fbmem.c" (required by nvidia, plan was to drop in newer kernels)
-UBUNTU: SAUCE: apparmor patch set: waiting for a new version from upstream maintainer
-UBUNTU: SAUCE: shiftfs: deprecated
-UBUNTU: SAUCE: ubuntu fan: deprecated
+Driver-related patches (dropped at every major release if they are not yet upstream):
+ - UBUNTU: SAUCE: Revert "fbdev: Make registered_fb[] private to fbmem.c" (required by nvidia, plan was to drop in newer kernels)
+
+Ubuntu-specific features not supported anymore:
+ - UBUNTU: SAUCE: shiftfs: deprecated
+ - UBUNTU: SAUCE: ubuntu fan: deprecated
+
+Retpoline annotations reverted after enforcing objtool warnings as fatal (LP: #2046440):
+ - UBUNTU: SAUCE: apm -- annotate indirect calls within firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_{start,end}
+ - UBUNTU: SAUCE: early/late -- annotate indirect calls in early/late initialisation code
+ - UBUNTU: SAUCE: vga_set_mode -- avoid jump tables