On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

> >  
> > > What exactly are the ranges? You haven't given me enough info yet. I wrote the
> > > K6-* MTRR driver, so I'd like to help.
> > > 
> > OK, the Linux 3dfx driver attempts to set up a write combining range starting 
> > at the card's base address and 0x400000 bytes long. After doing this it then 
> > sets up a range marked as uncacheable starting at the card's base address of 
> > length  0x1000.
> 
> The current i686 MTRR driver doesn't allow overlapping ranges at all; 
> this is a defect in its implementation that will be rectified when I 
> get to work on it next (hopefully in the next week or so).

The current K6 MTRR driver does, but I need more information on exactly
what's wrong. If it's returning EINVAL, what EXACTLY did he pass it?
Stephen, you're not giving enough information.

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