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Replace memtest86+ with pcmemtest?

Open mika opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

memtest86+ doesn't support EFI boot, while https://github.com/martinwhitaker/pcmemtest claims to provide EFI support, though pcmtest is available in Debian testing + unstable only for now, though that might be worth giving it a try.

mika avatar Mar 23 '22 15:03 mika

:+1: :shipit:

riesebie avatar Mar 24 '22 18:03 riesebie

Do we need to replace?

Can't we hide m86+ on UEFI and show both on BIOS boot?

Reason being twofold:

  • Memory testing always was a bit religious, and we could try to offer whatever people prefer
  • M86+ might get UEFI support in the future

evgeni avatar Mar 25 '22 06:03 evgeni

And just like this, https://github.com/memtest86plus/memtest86plus happened, which is now "Memtest86+ v6.0 was based on PCMemTest, which was a fork and rewrite of the earlier Memtest86+ v5.01, which in turn was a fork of Memtest86." :exploding_head:

evgeni avatar Mar 25 '22 09:03 evgeni

memtest86+ in experimental is already the pcmemtest variant. So its likely nothing needs to be done :-)

zeha avatar Jul 28 '22 22:07 zeha