On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:22:52PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Is the sysutils/memtest86+ port still useful?
I doubt it.
> Our version dates from 2011, but even the newest one listed on the
> home page is from 2013. I tried to run memtest as built by our
> port on my Thinkpad X230 (ca. 2012), but it just crashes. Does it
> still run on any machines of recent vintage?
You can download bootable images from their website as well.
memtest-4.20p3 does not work through `boot memtest' on a X250 with stock
firmware but just prints "entry point at 0x1000" and leaving the system
in a halted state.
On my machines MemTest86+ 5.01 is either built as coreboot payload or
UEFI executable and works just fine.
> The port does not build with ld.lld. I have a diff to fix that,
> but I don't know if it produces a working executable. However,
> that's pointless if even the one built with ld.bfd doesn't work.
I consider our port useless and defunct so OK kn to remove it.
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