[Buildroot] [PATCH] memtest86+: new package

Steve Kenton skenton at ou.edu
Thu Jan 29 17:33:56 UTC 2015


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. The
buildroot scripts do not seem to allow the "+" in the 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 at ou.edu>
---
against last night's snapshot.

diff -pruN buildroot.ori/package/Config.in buildroot/package/Config.in
--- buildroot.ori/package/Config.in	2015-01-27 16:58:14.000000000 -0600
+++ buildroot/package/Config.in	2015-01-29 11:25:34.836735243 -0600
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ endif
 	source "package/lvm2/Config.in"
 	source "package/mdadm/Config.in"
 	source "package/media-ctl/Config.in"
+	source "package/memtest86/Config.in"
 	source "package/memtester/Config.in"
 	source "package/minicom/Config.in"
 	source "package/nanocom/Config.in"
diff -pruN buildroot.ori/package/memtest86/Config.in buildroot/package/memtest86/Config.in
--- buildroot.ori/package/memtest86/Config.in	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ buildroot/package/memtest86/Config.in	2015-01-29 11:13:50.384721730 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_MEMTEST86
+	bool "memtest86"
+	depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64
+	help
+	  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. The
+	  buildroot scripts do not seem to allow the "+" in the 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. It can
+	  be added to the grub2 boot menu by adding the following lines
+	  to the bottom of /boot/grub/grub.cfg - note the use of linux16.
+
+	  menuentry "Memtest86+" {
+		 linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
+	  }
+
+	  Other boot loaders will have similar requirements.
+
+	  http://www.memtest.org
+
diff -pruN buildroot.ori/package/memtest86/memtest86+.mk buildroot/package/memtest86/memtest86+.mk
--- buildroot.ori/package/memtest86/memtest86+.mk	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ buildroot/package/memtest86/memtest86+.mk	2015-01-29 11:22:22.576731555 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+###############################################################################
+#
+# memtest86
+#
+###############################################################################
+
+MEMTEST86_VERSION = 4.20
+MEMTEST86_SOURCE = memtest86+-$(MEMTEST86_VERSION).tar.gz
+MEMTEST86_SITE = http://www.memtest.org/download/$(MEMTEST86_VERSION)
+MEMTEST86_LICENSE = GPLv2
+MEMTEST86_LICENSE_FILES = README, source code
+
+# memtest86+ is sensitive to toolchain changes, use the shipped binary version
+define MEMTEST86_BUILD_CMDS
+	true
+endef
+
+define MEMTEST86_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	$(INSTALL) -m 0755 -D $(@D)/precomp.bin $(TARGET_DIR)/boot/memtest86+.bin
+endef
+
+$(eval $(generic-package))
+


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