Bug#1000208: ITP: pcmemtest -- stand-alone memory tester

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Samstag, dem 20.11.2021 um 10:00 -0500 schrieb Antoine Beaupré:
> On 2021-11-19 19:50:45, fzielcke@z-51.de wrote:
> [...]
> 
> >  PCMemTest is a fork and rewrite of Memtest86+, which in turn was a
> > fork of
> >  Memtest86.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm happy to maintain it inside a team or with co-maintainer(s).
> > I'm only DM so if someone has interest in sponsoring this, feel free
> > to
> > contact me.
> 
> Great find! I was disappointed to find out that memtest86* is basically
> unusable these days in Debian, and find this ITP to be very
> interesting!
> Do let me know if you need a sponsor.
> 
> Did you test the program at all? Does it behave better than the
> existing
> memtest86 packages currently in Debian?
> 
> a.

Thanks for your interest :)

I pushed now my first work to my personal salsa profile:

https://salsa.debian.org/fzielcke/pcmemtest

The files are for now in /usr/lib/pcmemtest
There are 32bit and 64bit legacy BIOS + EFI files
Not sure if there's actually a different between the 2 legacy BIOS
versions.

I haven't yet tried it myself but will do soon.
The suggestion came from #btrfs IRC channel. So it can't be that bad.


And I'm not sure how I want to do the GRUB integration. Due to the
differences with 32bit and 64bit EFI.
Is there actually a way to find out with what EFI version the system
booted?

Regards
Felix