Re: Frankenstien flame war
The chipset and the Chip bus was the right brain of the Amiga and the CPU and it's Fast bus were the left-brain. What made the Amiga special was its custom chips being documented well enough to allow people to bang on them mercilessly without need for drivers.
Nonetheless, IMHO, we should try to standardize the way the chipset accesses the functionality of certain features. This will allow for cross-compatibility between the Amiga-like OSs and would probably be best implemented as a collection of shared libraries added to AfaOS and AROS since these are the least common denominator of the Amiga platform at present.