Hi Adam, thanks for all your comments.
Am Montag, dem 22.11.2021 um 09:27 +0100 schrieb Adam Borowski: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 04:46:50PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Sonntag, dem 21.11.2021 um 10:15 -0500 schrieb Antoine Beaupré: > > > i would suggest not blocking on the grub deployment. you can > > > probably > > > just deploy whatever architecture the package was built from, in > > > any > > > case. > > > I just added now the GRUB 2 integration and a README.Debian. > > The integration isn't triggered on the package's install, but it is > picked > up the next time something else bumps grub. I forgot that grub2 isn't using triggers. Added now a postinst based on the one from memtest86+. Except that I removed the lilo parts. > > > > Note that I mention in README.Debian one nasty bug/issue: > > > > In EFI mode the keyboard only works if you have the CSM aka legacy > > boot > > also enabled: > > > > https://github.com/martinwhitaker/pcmemtest/issues/2 > > This is a nasty one. It seems most new machines lack CSM; no one wants > to > support and validate 16-bit stuff -- it's effectively expending > resources > to have two BIOSes instead of one, and the 8086 one has no practical > usage. > I opened now upstream a new issue about this: https://github.com/martinwhitaker/pcmemtest/issues/13 But in the closed one he said, it takes a while to write a usb keyboard driver for EFI. > > Upstream doestn't say anything there that this will change. Issue was > > closed with the hint it's documented. And it will just run with > > default > > settings. > > It does, but using just a single thread. There's not exactly many x86 > machines with only a single hardware thread that are still in use. > > What about defaulting to SMP when there's no user input? The UP mode > has little purpose for existing -- if concurrent accesses to memory > break, they'll also break when running the actual productive task the > machine is supposed to do. > I also made an issue for this: https://github.com/martinwhitaker/pcmemtest/issues/14 I don't know the reasons why it's not enabled by default. So I woudn't change that for the first upload to Debian on my own. > Meow! Cheers! Felix