Bug#556365: Please enable CONFIG_MEMTEST

2011-03-15 Thread onlyjob
Hi, As a matter of fact MEMTEST is a quite useful feature. We ask to enable it not for what it cannot do, but for what it can. For example ECC in hardware is not useless even though it doesn't catch all possible errors. As I demonstrate in http://onlyjob.blogspot.com/2011/01/memtest-explain

Bug#556365: Please enable CONFIG_MEMTEST

2009-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 16:05 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.31-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Please enable CONFIG_MEMTEST on x86. It shouldn't have any impact by > default, and can be useful to boot a system with bad ram. The in-kernel memory test is nearly useless

Bug#556365: Please enable CONFIG_MEMTEST

2009-11-15 Thread Romain Francoise
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.31-1 Severity: wishlist Please enable CONFIG_MEMTEST on x86. It shouldn't have any impact by default, and can be useful to boot a system with bad ram. -- Romain Francoise http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ.