Re: Explorer's modification of CPUstress image

Hello everyone.
I finally have the time to finish this new version of the image.

CPUstress 2.5.0 (15 August 2014)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/701 ... s-2.5.0.7z
Size: 4694727 bytes
MD5: a05bdc5d79bad6ef5cbb5e26d4f32287

Programs updated or rebuilt:

• Updated Intel LINPACK to v11.1.3 (from v11.1.2)
• Rebuilt systester-cli with GMP 6.0.0. Also GMP is now built as a fat binary.
• Rebuilt BusyBox and added 'mv' command.
• Updated libgcc to v4.9.1 (from v4.7.3)
• Updated kernel to 3.16.1.
• All programs and libraries (except cpuburn-in, linpack, and mprime) are re-compiled with a custom toolchain so that they are compatible with i486 CPUs. All CPUstress releases since v2.1expl3 and until this version were not really compatible with i486 and Pentium CPUs, due to the Ubuntu GCC that generates i686-only code. This regression is now fixed.

Changes:

• New wrapper script for Mersenne Prime test (mprime). This wrapper can now ask user for which type of torture test to run, and tune the torture test settings. Help document for mprime is also re-written.
• Various optimizations in shell scripts.

In this version I changed the help documents in a lot of places. When Victor incorporates this image to UBCD please make sure the help documents are updated too.

Also, MPrime 28.5 is not ready to be included yet. The new mprime binary now links to a shared libstdc++, and I'll need some time to re-compile it so that libstdc++ can be linked statically.