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...syslinux on my own Linux recovery CDs for almost a year now, and in that time I've found it useful to be able to automatically load a 64-bit-capable kernel if the CPU supports it. I'd like to share my efforts and submit this patch for syslinux-3.31. It adds a new config file keyword, 'default64', which overrides the default image if a 64-bit CPU is detected. This allows your config file to have something like this in order to automatically choose between a 32-bit and 64-bit kernel: default linux default64 linux64 prompt 0 label linux kernel vmlinuz...

I stumbled across the following patch and wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea to have it included. http://foldingcd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/foldingcd/trunk/folding_cd/patches/syslinux-3.51-64bit.patch?revision=5 It adds a default64 keyword and detection of a 64bit processor. It could be useful for mixed environments. The patch is against 3.51, but looks like it would port over to a current release easily enough. Although I suspect it would be nice to add on to it, if default64 isn't defined to fall back to default for...

...uld be fairly straight forward to create a custom com32 module to detect whatever I want, but I don't see an easy way to translate that information into the mechanism by which my kernel of choice is selected. I've seen a patch that makes the 64bit/32bit distinction and adds a special "default64" target. This is close, but breaks the flexibility of the menu system and the user's ability to add parameters to the command line or select from multiple configurations. I see at least two possibilities here. One is to add variables and conditionals to the configuration file parser (a...