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Re: GRIO support


>
> Is there any plan to support GRIO on Linux XFS? Video-on-demand could sure
> use this support. How difficult is it to port this code from IRIX?
> 
> Blair
>

When setting up a guaranteed rate stream, the current GRIO
implementation on IRIX uses detailed knowledge of every piece of
hardware down the entire IO path.  At this point it is tied to SGI
hardware and would be difficult to port.  There is no current plan to
support it under linux.

Andrew

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