On Memtest86+ change sets up for review

[Paul Menzel]

Dear coreboot folks,

There are patches up for review [1], creating a new memtest86plus
project [2].

Martin, as you are the author, could you please give a little bit more
information?

The last Memtest86+ release seems to be from 2013, and looking at your
change sets there are a lot of patches applied from the distributions.
So there is not much maintenance going on upstream. I could not find a
mailing list, but there is some activity in the forum [4].

I am interested in what the goal is? Do we want to be the new
Memtest86+ upstream?

Have you talked to the Memtest86+ folks, so that they are informed?
Will they hand over the domain for example?

Thanks,

Paul

[1] https://review.coreboot.org/#/q/project:memtest86plus
[2] https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/13818/
[3] http://www.memtest.org/
[4] http://forum.canardpc.com/forums/73-Memtest86-Official-forum

[Martin Roth]

Hi Paul,
  I'm not really interested in taking over memtest86+, I'm just
creating a repository that we can build from and run as a payload.  I
originally looked at having the build process download the tarball and
apply patches, but once I got up to 10 patches, I opted for starting a
repo instead.  One of my patches is to brand this as a coreboot
release of Memtest86+ so that it's not confused with the 'official'
release.

I supplied some patches to Doc TB for the 5.0 release, but i haven't
talked to anyone there recently.  If they wanted to make this the
official upstream repository and not use the coreboot branding, I'd be
fine with that, but that wasn't my intention in creating this repo.

Martin

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Paul Menzel
 wrote:
> Dear coreboot folks,
>
> There are patches up for review [1], creating a new memtest86plus
> project [2].
>
> Martin, as you are the author, could you please give a little bit more
> information?
>
> The last Memtest86+ release seems to be from 2013, and looking at your
> change sets there are a lot of patches applied from the distributions.
> So there is not much maintenance going on upstream. I could not find a
> mailing list, but there is some activity in the forum [4].
>
> I am interested in what the goal is? Do we want to be the new
> Memtest86+ upstream?
>
> Have you talked to the Memtest86+ folks, so that they are informed?
> Will they hand over the domain for example?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> [1] https://review.coreboot.org/#/q/project:memtest86plus
> [2] https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/13818/
> [3] http://www.memtest.org/
> [4] http://forum.canardpc.com/forums/73-Memtest86-Official-forum
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