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Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a place to sensibly insert memorytest routines....
>
> Currently I'd like to do that not in the loader, but in the kernel 
> where memory is already setup to be one flat address space. This makes 
> programming a lot simpler. 


I'd argue that it should just be a program that can be loadd by the 
loader and executed.

memtest86 could just be loaded and run.