On 2021-11-20 17:56:22, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Samstag, dem 20.11.2021 um 10:00 -0500 schrieb Antoine Beaupré:
>> On 2021-11-19 19:50:45, fziel...@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?
i would suggest not blocking on the grub deployment. you can probably
just deploy whatever architecture the package was built from, in any
case.
a.
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