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1*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig BR2_PACKAGE_MEMTEST86
2*4882a593Smuzhiyun	bool "memtest86"
3*4882a593Smuzhiyun	depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64
4*4882a593Smuzhiyun	help
5*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  Memtest86+ is a bootable standalone memory test program.
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7*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  Buildroot does not support packages with a '+' sign in their
8*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  name, which explains why it is named memtest86 and not
9*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  memtest86+.
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11*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory
12*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  is in working order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount
13*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  of different patterns to all memory locations and reads them
14*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  back again and verifies whether the result of the read is the
15*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  same as what was written to memory.
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17*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  Memtest86+ will only work on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 targets.
18*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  It boots as an i486 program and autodetects hardware. It can
19*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  be added to the grub2 boot menu by adding the following
20*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  lines to the bottom of /boot/grub/grub.cfg - note the use of
21*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  linux16.
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23*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  menuentry "Memtest86+" {
24*4882a593Smuzhiyun	    linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
25*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  }
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27*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  Other boot loaders will have similar requirements.
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29*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  http://www.memtest.org
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