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. 6*4882a593Smuzhiyun 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+. 10*4882a593Smuzhiyun 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. 16*4882a593Smuzhiyun 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. 22*4882a593Smuzhiyun 23*4882a593Smuzhiyun menuentry "Memtest86+" { 24*4882a593Smuzhiyun linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin 25*4882a593Smuzhiyun } 26*4882a593Smuzhiyun 27*4882a593Smuzhiyun Other boot loaders will have similar requirements. 28*4882a593Smuzhiyun 29*4882a593Smuzhiyun http://www.memtest.org 30