>>
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>> mapping the EBDA is rather ... un-nice from that driver, so i guess 
>> you check does the right thing in flagging possible crap.
> 
> it does:
> 
>     addr:  0x9f800
>      end:  0xaf5e7
> p->start:  0x9f800
>   p->end:  0x9ffff
> 
> resources are laid out like this:
> 
>   0009f800-0009ffff : reserved
>   000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
> 
> so the driver over-maps into the Video RAM...

... and makes that uncachable (while it probably was WC before)

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