Features/ArchitectureSupport - changing what we build for
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Jan 31 15:57:50 UTC 2009
Benny Amorsen wrote:
>> What are the chances GRUB/syslinux could be taught to look at a few
>> special CPU flags (can you fetch the important flags from real mode?)
>> and only present "compatible" (as determined by config arguments, not
>> GRUB/syslinux poking into kernels) boot options? That would help the
>> LiveCD case as well. You could have both 32-PAE and 64 kernels on the
>> CD and choose at boot time, although that would take up a large amount
>> of space (so maybe not feasible for LiveCD).
>
> That would be rather neat. Tricky, but neat.
But our live images are already heavily size-constrained. There's definitely
no room for multiple kernels on the KDE live image, and I don't think the
GNOME image has any room left either.
Kevin Kofler
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