History, Roadmap and Contribution

[lpalgarvio]

Hello

I see there's a lot of commits already. That's fantastic, thanks for the continuing development.
But i have some questions.

Is this project it based on the original memtest86+ v5.01? or older 4.20? 4.00?
It looks to be from 5.01 looking at the changelog file, but not accordingly to other documentation files (same as in the original author's source code)

The code came from memtest86+ https://www.memtest.org/#downcode ?
5.01 (27/09/2013)
4.20 (25/01/2011)
4.10 (04/05/2010)
4.00 (22/09/2009)
The original author didn't update much of the documentation after 4.00, including version history on readme, but did update changelog file, which in turns makes everything more confusing.

From memtest86 https://www.memtest86.com/downloads ?
Is the source code of 4.3.7 significantly older and already included in memtest86+?
https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-4.3.7-iso.tar.gz

The roadmap and contributions,

• Is there a roadmap and what it is?
• Is there any company or institution or group contributing?
• Is this source being used by upstream linux distributions?
• What can a user contribute with? CPU IDs? and how?
• Plans for porting to 32bit for UEFI while keeping 16bit for BIOS?

Cheers!

[anphsw]

• This code comes from original memtest86+ 5.01 from website.

• There is no roadmap. I trying just to keep code working on current hardware.
  At least I want to document rowhammer test and memory latency test and finally fix some opened issues.

• No groups, companies etc.

• As far I know, no distributions using this source, most of them use vanilla memtest+ code with some patches (even not all critical erros fixed).

• You can contribute any code, just write it.

• I do want UEFI port, but dont know how to make it work. Maybe using uefi-grub and chainloader will work, maybe not.