Brandon Nielsen composed on 2020-03-31 09:05 (UTC-0500):

> Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems 
> (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the 
> memtest86+ provided with the Fedora Workstation Live media failed.

> On the Haswell and Haswell refresh machines it froze shortly after 
> starting. It didn't matter if the test was run in 'Safe Mode', or with SMP.

> On the Kaby Lake R machine it causes the machine to reboot before 
> memtest86+ launches.

> It works fine on an older Wolfdale Core 2 Duo.

> I've tried this with both the Workstation Live 31 and a 32 Beta image. 
> Both verified.

> Has anyone else seen this? Should there be a test case? Should it just 
> be dropped since memtest86+ appears to be dead upstream, and doesn't 
> support UEFI (and possibly doesn't work)?

I long ago switched to free version of https://www.memtest86.com/ for anything
with DDR4 or UEFI.
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