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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
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    > Trevor's quote does not say for certain that the driver work is being done
    > by an A-Eon paid developer

    I've been referring to the audio driver specifically as to my knowledge all other critical drivers are done (no matter by whom) and the missing audio driver is what's holding back the Tabor/A1222 release.
    Edit: https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=12184&start=194

    > I think it could be that it is Hyperion's responsibility, unless you have
    > another quote that clearly states that drivers are the responsibility of A-Eon.

    Hyperion director Costel "Cyborg" Mincea from 1 and 2 days after Trevor's AmiWest statements (manually enhanced Google translation):

    "The audio driver was _never_ subject of the contract between Hyperion and A-EON. Why not? Because A-EON wanted it that way, and usually anyway, the hardware manufacturers themselves provide all the drivers that go beyond the bare essentials of the OS. The only exception was the network driver [...]. ALL other drivers, especially onboard SATA and audio, are not part of the porting contract and therefore not Hyperion's responsibility. [...] the missing audio driver [...] was commissioned directly by A-EON to another developer [...]. Thus also not Hyperion's responsibility. [...] However, we are also working to possibly provide a slightly faster solution for the software side, so that we can finally finish this project - from our side. It has already taken long enough."
    http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.os4welt.de/viewtopic.php?p=34568%23p34568

    "The fact that the audio driver is still not finished is just as surprising and annoying to us, because for (almost) all of our work on Tabor we will only see money through the sale of licenses. But [...] Hyperion's contracted work is fulfilled and if necessary, we will also take care of the audio driver ourselves"
    http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.os4welt.de/viewtopic.php?p=34586%23p34586

    So far I've seen no indication that Hyperion has taken over the Tabor audio driver development from A-Eon.

    > if Hyperion is not doing the drivers, what are they doing to port AmigaOS4 to the Tabor?

    They had to adapt the lowest-level portions of OS4 to the P1022's e500v2 core (even though its supervisor instructions and peculiarities shouldn't be too far from those of previously supported e5500). Hyperion's hardest work for the Tabor port was certainly the FPU emulation to account for the e500v2's GPR-based SPE FPU. But according to Hyperion (see above), their work is long done (barring further optimizations and fixing of possible bugs that will stand out after release, of course).


    Edit: number6 beat me to it.
    Edit2: added link to contrary info to first paragraph

    [ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 26.09.2019 - 23:28 ]
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