Alot of misconceptions in this thread.
OS4 is for AMigaOne and other supported Amigas
To have OS4 available for a particular board, then that board must have Amiga certification, this involves a liscence fee to Amiga Inc.
The purpose of this certification is to ensure the manufacturer complies with AmigaOne specifications, and that adequete hardware support section is available from that company.
An AmigaOne as defined by fleecy in one of the Q&A recently is a certified motherboard supplied with OS4 in a bundle.Amiga certified boards can be sold without OS4, but at the same time they wont be AmigaOnes either.The Dongle is an important feature of this arrangement so ensure OS4 only runs on certified hardware, and that certified hardware comes with OS4 so pirating is uneccesary.
This arrangement in no way relieves Hyperion of any software support whatsoever, it is in place to ensure that there is adequete HARWARE support so that some bodgey company cannot just come along and sell bodgie boards and then hurt the Amiga name.
The only impedance of OS4 going to the pegasos is simply that Genesi refuses to get that certification which is Amiga Inc. method of quality control.
Of course this could change in the future, and has been hinted at by BBRV in other threads.
The other reason for this certification is to limit the amount of hardware that needs to be supported by OS4, hence speeding development time etc, and also reducing the number of places where things can go wrong.
