[Bug 1876157] Re: Memtest86+ in Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't work, switch to Coreboot branch or package new release v5.31b is available since 12/04/2020

[Fantu]

I already know and as already told upstream developer already working contacting developers of these forks for collaborate and try to merge works of all upstream.
For now I'll wait progress of this instead wasting time applying, adapt (for 5.31b) and testing patches from forks now, I'll apply them only if there will be important issue that can't wait.
I have other projects/packages I contribute to, I only recently became a maintainer of memtest86+ after investing many hours in the last 2 months to update it, fix a lot of problems and make some other improvements.
If there are still important issues (with latest version, 5.31b+dfsg-4) let me know please, for now on all cases where old version was not working the latest is on my tests and the only thing not working is the multiboot (which is secondary and disabled by default) which I am not able to fix quickly (I have no knowledge about it) and so I left it like this (after adapting the old patch to at least fix the memory detection) to better invest the time in other parts and projects where I have more knowledge.
If anyone wants to contribute a patch that fixes it is welcome and I would apply immediately (after testing if it doesn't cause regressions) and I will do new build.

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Title:
  Memtest86+ in Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't work, switch to Coreboot branch or
  package new release v5.31b is available since 12/04/2020

Status in memtest86+ package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in memtest86+ package in Baltix:
  Triaged
Status in memtest86+ package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Memtest in Ubuntu is very old, not updated since 2013, new Memtest86+
  release v5.31b is available at http://memtest.org , dated 12/04/2020

  *** Enhancements in v5.31b : ***
  I've started compiling many codes branches to release public builds again! Here is Memtest86+ 5.31b, with many bug fixes in the core functions.

  Also there is updated Memtest86+ branch at https://www.coreboot.org/Memtest86%2B - several people told, that this branch does work, where original Memtest 5.01 doesn't, see
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=943752

  ---- Original bugreport ----
  I ran it twice, and both times it hung at exactly 79% in the first test. Even fail safe mode hung exactly at that point.

  Then I booted with the floppy image from memtest86+-4.10.floppy.zip
  and it worked fine.

  Today I installed memtest86+_5.01-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb from Ubuntu 19.10
  and that worked fine too.

  The failing version is 5.01-3.1ubuntu1.

  Memory configuration is 2 * 2 GB (F2-6400CL5-2GBPQ) and 2 * 1 GB
  (OCZ2G8001G) working in dual channel mode. CPU is Harpertown Xeon
  X5470 running at stock speed (3.33 GHz).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: memtest86+ 5.01-3.1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-28.32-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-28-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Apr 30 13:51:01 2020
  SourcePackage: memtest86+
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-06 (24 days ago)

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