[syslinux] Automatically choose between 32-bit and 64-bit kernel

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 22 21:14:59 PST 2007


Curtis Doty wrote:
> 
> I'm eager to fiddle with this (com32 module) if anyone has patches to
> test. The cat's meow would be some way to abstract the cpu flags into
> variables. Then one could a) select kernel arch from flags.lm, b) append
> custom arguments derived from cpuid, and even c) decide to boot a xen
> dom0 if, say, the vmx or svm flags are flying.
> 

There is already some of that in C code (com32/modules/cpuid.c); what I 
guess we really need is a scripting language of some sort?

	-hpa




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