From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 12:02:19 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH V3] memtest86+: new package In-Reply-To: <54CD6C81.1040808@ou.edu> References: <54CD6C81.1040808@ou.edu> Message-ID: <20150201120219.6f32addf@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni > + 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com