[Fedora-livecd-list] auto-biarch (x86_64 + i686) LiveDVD patch + ISO

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On 06/21/2009 12:05 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> finally created a LiveDVD ISO automatically booting x86_64 OS on x86_64
> (and i686 otherwise).  Regular users will not notice there exists any new arch
> while they will benefit from the full performance of their PC:
> 	http://people.redhat.com/jkratoch/x86bilive-2009062000.tar.gz (71KB)
>
> It uses live_dir=LiveOS-x86_64 vs. live_dir=LiveOS-i686 to boot the image.
>
> The syslinux patch provides "default-{x86_64,i386}" keywords in isolinux.cfg.
>
> livecd-iso-to-disk is not patched/compatible with such image.
>
> livecd-creator should create such ISO on a single run, not by merging the
> output of two livecd-creator runs by a 3rd party app.
>

It does not make much sense to me, so maybe you can explain it:

Isn't syslinux 3.72 or later itself capable of choosing one or the other 
menu entry using ifcpu64.c32?

Would that not be a better option?

-Jeroen