[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > I got annoyed with memtest86 a while ago and started scratching itches. > > I have a preliminary patch available that I will send to Chris Brady > as soon as I do as I sleep on it and can do a final review with > a fresh mind. > > As of 2.9 memtest86 does BIOS calls to get the memory size, this > broke netbooting. > > The big features. > 1) netbooting is working again > 2) LinuxBIOS support is in (To get the memory size) > 3) I can test all of the RAM on my 6G test machine > 4) The serial console code does many fewer writes to the serial port. > 5) The infrastructure is in to poll ecc error reporting chipset regisets, > and the support has been done for some chipsets. > 6) You can press ^l or just l to get a screen refresh nice, when you > are connecting and unconnecting a serial cable. > 7) Uses dynamic relocation information records to make itself PIC > instead of requiring 2 copies of memtest86 in the binary.
And if you aren't a mind reader I need to mention the code is at: ftp://download.lnxi.com/pub/src/memtest86/memtest86-2.9.eb1.tgz Eric
