[Buildroot] [PATCH V3] memtest86+: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Steve Kenton,

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:00:01 -0600, Steve Kenton wrote:
> Memtest86+ is a bootable standalone memory test program.
> 
> Please note that this is the forked memtest86+ program and not
> the original memtest86 which has different licensing. Buildroot
> does not support packages with a '+' sign in their name.
> 
> Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory
> is in working order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount
> of different patterns to all memory locations and reads them
> back again and verifies whether the result of the read is the
> same as what was written to memory.
> 
> Memtest86+ will only work on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 targets.
> It boots as an i486 program and autodetects hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by Stephen M. Kenton <skenton@ou.edu>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>


> +	  Please note that this is the forked memtest86+ program and not
> +	  the original memtest86 which has different licensing. Buildroot
> +	  does not support packages with a '+' sign in their name.

This sentence could be improved:

	Buildroot does not support packages with a '+' sign in their
	name, which explains why it is named memtest86 and not
	memtest86+.

I guess Peter can make the change when applying.

Thanks,

Thomas
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