[ipxe-devel] memtest as a PXE NBP

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Tue Jan 28 14:41:59 UTC 2014


On 20/01/14 21:32, Christian Nilsson wrote:
>>> Just a note about reporting memtest.0 status based on errno, where
>>> I've been having problems due to 'chain' (really anything run through
>>> src/core/exec.c:execv()) not modifying errno on success.
>>
>> This is by design.  As with the C library's errno variable, you can rely on the contents of ${errno} only immediately after experiencing an error.
>
> How much work would it take to get an memtest 5.01 NBP version?

Somewhere between one day and one week, based on how long it took to get 
the original version working.

Michael



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