A new memtest program included in next Fedora ?

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Tue Jan 20 11:41:54 UTC 2004


Martin Andersen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I noticed the new program memtest86+, based on memtest86, which
> have not released since 22. May 2002.
> Maybe this will be part of Fedora 2 ?
> 
> *Enhancement in v1.0 (Based on Memtest86 V3.0) :*
> 
>   * Lots of bug-fixes, works now with all AMD64.
>   * Added detection for Athlon 64 / Opteron
>   * Added detection for latest Athlon XP (including Barton)
>   * Added detection for latest Pentium 4 (including Prescott)
>   * Added detection for SiS735/740/745/748/755/645/655
>   * Added detection for ATi Radeon 9100 IGP (RS300)
>   * Added detection for nVidia nForce/nForce2(400/Ultra)/nForce3/nForce3-S
>   * Added detection for VIA KT266(A)/333/KT400(A)/KT600/PT800/PT880/K8T800
>   * Added detection for i865P/PE/G/i875P/E7500/E7501/E7205
>   * ECC initialization & ECC polling added for all AMD64 CPUs
>   * ECC initialization & ECC polling added for i875P and E7501 & E7205
>   * Added complete advanced settings detection for i875P, AMD64 and
>     nForce2.
>   * Added partial advanced settings detection for KT266(A)/KT333.
>   * Corrected ECC Error not counted as a global error anymore.
>   * Added a "safe-mode" (press F1 when memtest86+ loading) in case of
>     freeze.
>   * Source code now compatible with gcc 3
> 
> 
> Webpage: http://www.memtest.org/
> 
> 
> Martin.
> 
> 

I can see value in having memtest86+ included in the distribution in two 
possible ways:
1) Invokable from Disc1 SYSLINUX with "memtest", which runs the binary.
2) Install the memtest86+ RPM, and it drops the binary in a location 
like /boot/memtest86+.bin, and adds itself to the grub menu like the 
kernel RPMS do.  Include a simple script that will write that binary to 
a floppy, or use mkisofs to create a bootable .ISO containing that binary.

Sane idea?

Warren





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