Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there might be some confusion here. I think Rathijit is talking about the M5 memory tester and Gabe is talking about the memtest boot program in Linux...
-Derek On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Gabriel Michael Black <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know how memtest gets itself going, but this may be hard to do. When > we boot Linux we skip some steps by putting the kernel into memory directly > and fake the environment the BIOS and bootloader would have created for it. > We do this by using the uncompressed ELF image the build process creates > instead of the compressed and otherwise prepared version you'd most likely > use with grub. > > If you were to boot memtest, I'm guessing you'd need to actually add back in > the steps we took out by writing a BIOS to start up with and running > whatever bootloader is needed (or none, if memtest works that way). Also, > our chipset support is very generic. memtest may attempt to change settings > in a memory controller which we don't have implemented to cause effects we > don't support. > > You're welcome to give it a shot and we'll try to help you if you have > questions, but it's probably going to be a lot of work. If you do make > progress, please share it with us so we can make life easier if anyone else > tries this. > > Gabe > > Quoting Rathijit Sen <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> We would like to run memtest with x86 FS. Can anyone tell us how to do >> this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rathijit & Arka >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
