Ingo Weinhold dac21d8bfe * map_physical_memory() does now always set a memory type. If none is given (it
needs to be or'ed to the address specification), "uncached" is assumed.
* Set the memory type for the "BIOS" and "DMA" areas to write-back. Not sure, if
  that's correct, but that's what was effectively used on my machines before.
* Changed x86_set_mtrrs() and the CPU module hook to also set the default memory
  type.
* Rewrote the MTRR computation once more:
  - Now we know all used memory ranges, so we are free to extend used ranges
    into unused ones in order to simplify them for MTRR setup.
  - Leverage the subtractive properties of uncached and write-through ranges to
    simplify ranges of any other respectively write-back type.
  - Set the default memory type to write-back, so we don't need MTRRs for the
    RAM ranges.
  - If a new range intersects with an existing one, we no longer just fail.
    Instead we use the strictest requirements implied by the ranges. This fixes
    #5383.

Overall the new algorithm should be sufficient with far less MTRRs than before
(on my desktop machine 4 are used at maximum, while 8 didn't quite suffice
before). A drawback of the current implementation is that it doesn't deal with
the case of running out of MTRRs at all, which might result in some ranges
having weaker caching/memory ordering properties than requested.


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