I don't understand all this criticism of Hyperion when it comes to this sort of thing.
It's quite apparent - to me at least - that OS 4 is much more than just "HyperionOS" - it's more a labour of love of AmigaKit and A-Eon, or at least that's how it seems to me.
Please: forget the "sides". AmigaOS 4 has a many more people working on it these days than just Hyperion.
I can. Whenever you ask for something about the software side of X1000, you are told its Hyperion jobs to do. Then you ask Steven and you get not a real answer but we might look to it, no realistic plans. If you take a closer look, most of AmigaOS advancements these days are done by community bounties / individual efforts like Kas1e port in this case.
It kind of look likes Hyperion is dead. OS 4.2 is more a mythical object, hope they will prove me wrong, but its 4th year since they had Nemo board and not even full board drivers (net card, SD card) are done. From Hyperipons stance I believe drivers should be done by board manufacturer - at least they claim it in SAM460ex SATA DMA case, and when you ask Trevor he sais Hyperion should do it and more important THAT HE CANT INFLUENCE THEM!
Who did 7.1 sound driver? Lyle.
So its "no one is responsible" sad sad game, where only efforts of good and skilled people, save the day1.
In the end AmigaOS 4 should really go free and open source or to some more skilled owner.
