[geeks] octane personal video

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Fri Jan 17 12:22:42 CST 2003


On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> how comes the octane isn't supported? cpu? video?

Architecture.  Very few people outside of SGI grok XIO at the level
necessary to write drivers for it.  The HEART ASIC isn't documented,
either, and it's necessary for memory access.

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