After 9 years since the formation of the last significant branch, the release of the MemTest86+ 6.00 RAM testing program has been published. The program is not tied to operating systems and can be run directly from the BIOS / UEFI firmware or from the bootloader to conduct a full test of RAM. If problems are found, the map of bad memory areas built in Memtest86+ can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problem areas using the memmap option. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.
Main innovations:
- Completely rewritten code for loading and running when using UEFI firmware.
- Added SDRAM support.
- Implemented detection of DDR4 and DDR5 memory.
- Implemented detection of AMD Zen 1/2/3/4 processors.
- Implemented detection of Intel processors up to the 13th generation.
- Improved support for pre-Zen AMD CPU generations.
- Added support for Long Mode Paging.
- Added support for up to 256 CPU cores.
- Added support for XMP 3.0 (Extreme Memory Profile) profiles.
- Added support for older NVIDIA and AMD chipsets.
Source: opennet.ru