[Bug 1988142] memtest boot entry on Fedora install media does not work
since Fedora-Rawhide-20210728.n.3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1988142

This bug might be gcc, but also includes a note about the upstream
being kinda weak, possibly non-existent these days.

Neal Gompa mentioned pcmemtest earlier this year
https://github.com/martinwhitaker/pcmemtest

It would need a maintainer. Any takers?

Fedora doesn't have a release criterion covering the memory tester, or
really any option appearing in the install media's boot menu other
than the one that launches the installer. But I think it's better to
not ship a memory tester at all, than to ship a broken one (given the
options).

Memtest86+ is bios only, where pcmemtest can be compiled to run on
either firmware type. If we want it to work with UEFI Secure Boot
enabled, it'd need to be signed with Fedora's key (I think the same as
the one used for GRUB and/or the kernel?). This would be in scope for
Fedora 36, assuming the above bug can be easily fixed.

But if that bug is hard to fix, and pcmemtest could be a drop-in
replacement (i.e. bios only, just like now) maybe that's doable for
Fedora 35, and better than having no memory tester.


Chris Murphy




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