QA with Alan Redhouse

[DaveP]

@bloodline

Where? I did a string search on AROS and found no matches?

[DaveP]

Maybe the Queen will mention it in her speech come reopening
parliament. If she doesn't, I guess Matt will mention it on here no?

[DaveP]

"I think he was unnecessarily harsh about AROS..."

@Matt

How is not giving you a board being harsh about AROS?

I think you didnt even read the interview before you wrote
that. ;-) Admit it! ;-)

Dave.

[DaveP]

If you set up a paypal account specifically for donations
to help AROS get an A1 board, then I will donate, /if/ you
gaurantee that it will go towards an A1. :-)

[DaveP]

Come on Matt, I have made a generous genuine offer to help you
get an A1 for AROS and all we get is silence.

An answer would be great, otherwise I might start to think
that you don't really want an A1, it's just another excuse
to try and show the "triarchy" in a poor light ;-)

[DaveP]

The reason why I would have to turn down your offer is the same as why we had to turn down a similar offer from Genesi.

ROS has to remain Platform independant. If you work on the porting AROS to the A1, 99% of the code would be the same as all the other version of AROS, only the boot code and lowlevel drivers (we use AmigaOS style resources as a sort of HAL) would need to be A1 specific (and probably almost identical to the Pegasos port).

Right. I don't see how my offer breaks this.

I would be very happy to start a bounty for porting to the A1 that you would be welcome to work on though.

Im confused. Seriously, not teasing. You wanted an A1 to
port AROS ( a fine thing ), and indeed were quite unhappy that
it didn't happen. I offer to donate towards getting you an
A1 ( and Im sure the donations would have piled up quick ) to
port AROS, and now you don't want one - you would rather
I did the port for you?

--- getting a bit lost.

Dave.