memtest86 on the opteron
Is there anyone working on Memtest86 for the AMD Opteron?
What would be involved with making that work?
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dan carpenter
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Is there anyone working on Memtest86 for the AMD Opteron?
Well, as opteron is i386-compatible, you should be able to simply use i386 memtest... Should be easy for <2GB memory. You can teach memtest PAE, that will be usefull to 32GB pentium boxes, too ;-).
Pavel
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Well, as opteron is i386-compatible, you should be able to simply use i386 memtest...
It doesn't work. Crashes and reboots the system shortly after it starts. The serial console support appears to have bit-rotted, too, so I've not been able to capture an output screen to diagnose the problem.
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Well, as opteron is i386-compatible, you should be able to simply use i386 memtest...
It doesn't work. Crashes and reboots the system shortly after it starts. The serial console support appears to have bit-rotted, too, so I've not been able to capture an output screen to diagnose the problem.
Try asking AMD at [email protected].
BTW I'm sure I've seen x86_64 machine running some kind of memtest.... There was mem-testing PCI card. I'm not sure if we ran memtest86, too...
Pavel
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