> For some video cards (to wit, the voodoo stuff), the MTRRs should be set up as 
> follows
> 
>    write-combining
>  +----------------------------------------------------------+ 
>  +-------+
>   uncacheable
> 
> i.e. the two regions have the same starting area, but the small chunk for the 
> registers should be uncacheable. When I try to do this using memconf on my 
> K6-2, it spits the dummy. Is there a work around for this?

The i686 MTRR implementation, at least, doesn't allow UC to overlap WC; 
only Write-back and uncached are allowed to overlap.  I don't know what 
the K6's limitations are; you should talk to Brian Feldman about that.

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