4.1. Overall Progress Overview

Overall progress overview: The figure below shows the complete path from contract kickoff, environment readiness, compiler integration, operator coverage, validation, compliance, release, and promotion. It is organized around key deliverables, cooperation-level evolution, and hardware investment.

Performance metric requirements: Starting from Stage 3, operator performance, model accuracy, and end-to-end efficiency gradually become acceptance metrics. For advanced cooperation, performance metrics are a key baseline.

Quality and continuous maintenance requirements: Vendors must commit to maintaining the mainline adaptation code. FlagOS upgrades and vendor Driver/SDK upgrades must both be covered by CI/CD validation so that performance results remain sustainable, reproducible, and releasable.

Figure 3. Overall progress overview

Estimated total duration: about 3-5 months from signing to release. Total hardware investment increases with the cooperation target. The basic path requires about 1 development board, 1 CI machine, 2 SVT machines, and 1 dedicated FlagRelease (FR) machine. Additional machines should be added for Day 0, distribution, cloud-native, or showroom plans.