Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> (2014-08-19): > While I don't have a definitive opinion on the ordering of the menu > choices, I definitively think amd64 should be picked by default on amd64 > architectures. Especially since multiarch, there's no good reason left > for installing i386 on amd64-capable machines AFAIK. OK, ta. > Now, the ideal would be to use syslinux' ifcpu/ifcpu64 c32 modules to > determine the menu order depending on the machine (see [0]): no "64 bit" > option on 32 bit machines, "hidden or down the menu" "32 bit" option on > 64 bit-capable machines. > > I'd be happy to iron out some proposals during DebConf, if that idea > seems interesting. I didn't mention this because my mails contained too many questions already, but yes, it would be nice to have a conditional behaviour, depending on the detected architecture. Maybe automatic selection of the default architecture in the multi- arch image; and displaying a warning on i386 if an amd64 image was booted? Probably to be tracked in a separate, wishlist bug report to avoid conflating everything, even if the topics are quite close, I admit. Mraw, KiBi.
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