A new memtest program included in next Fedora ?

[Warren Togami]

Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> 
>> I have one that does just that for Linux at DUKE. I'll see if I can adapt 
>> it to memtest86+ today.
> 
> 
> OK, see:
> http://www.phy.duke.edu/~icon/RPMS/memtest86/memtest86+-1.00-1.src.rpm
> 
> It builds three packages:
> 
> memtest86+-grub
> memtest86+-grub-serial
> memtest86+-utils
> 
> The first two are obvious. The third one installs a floppy image and an 
> iso image into /usr/lib/memtest86+ and provides a small utility for 
> creating bootable floppies and CDs. Example:
> 
> memtest-make --floppy=/dev/fd0
> memtest-make --cddev=1,0,0
> 
> I've only compiled and tested this on RH-9, but I doubt there will be 
> any issues on FC1 and above, but I would be happy to accept problem 
> reports. One thing I noticed is that it doesn't build if -mcpu=i686 is 
> given, so this is limited to -march=i386.
> 
> Hope this is useful.
> 
> Regards,

I am thinking, would it be possible to minimize this to a single binary 
RPM?  We should try to limit the proliferation of the millions of tiny 
binary RPMS that contain very little.

The single binary RPM should not contain a separate floppy and ISO 
image, but instead have a script that generates those images on-demand 
from the tiny binary installed into /boot/.  grub-serial is a good idea, 
but why not have this single package add two grub entries?

Anyhow, just my opinion... I am interested to hear other opinions.

Warren