Re: replace memtest86+ with pcmemtest, needs maintainer

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On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 12:15 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 02/08/2021 04:04, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > I'm definitely not attached to keeping things the same. The bios
> > memtest86+ is still these days installed to /boot but there hasn't
> > been a menu entry for it for a very long time; in fact maybe it was
> > only ever on netintall or dvd images? I can't remember that far back
>
> memtest86+ doesn't support UEFI. It only has a menu entry if the Legacy
> boot is used.

Yeah I mentioned that in the first post.


> Also memtest86+ doesn't support modern Intel and AMD processors. It will
> hang on start.

Does this apply to the current 5.31 beta? I guess it's also a bit
beside the point, because any modern Intel and AMD processor also has
UEFI firmware. In order to enable the legacy/CSM you have to disable
UEFI Secure Boot which... it's not good to advise this.



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Chris Murphy
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