diff --git a/package/x86/memtest86/ld-gnu-linkonce.patch b/package/x86/memtest86/ld-gnu-linkonce.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2278495fb..000000000
--- a/package/x86/memtest86/ld-gnu-linkonce.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/x86/memtest86/ld-gnu-linkonce.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- memtest86+_v1.11/memtest_shared.lds	2003-12-30 08:20:16.000000000 +0100
-+++ memtest86+_v1.11-jsaw/memtest_shared.lds	2004-02-23 19:38:22.000000000 +0100
-@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
- 		*(.text)
- 		*(.text.*)
- 		*(.plt)
-+		*(.gnu.linkonce.*)
- 		_etext = . ;
- 	} = 0x9090
- 	.rodata : {
diff --git a/package/x86/memtest86/memtest86.desc b/package/x86/memtest86/memtest86.desc
index 5d14874ae..145f43056 100644
--- a/package/x86/memtest86/memtest86.desc
+++ b/package/x86/memtest86/memtest86.desc
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.15
+[V] 1.55.1
 [P] X -?---5---9 101.700
 
-[D] 2604658861 memtest_source_v1.15.tar.gz http://www.memtest.org/download/1.15/
+[D] 4153515619 memtest86+-1.55.1.tar.gz http://www.memtest.org/download/1.55.1/