Freemware on IA64

[wish-freemware]

AIUI Intel's new IA64 architecture has support for running old
IA32 programs.  Perhaps we should target this as well as 
conventional IA32 architectures in order to provide a migration
path from common IA32 bit OSen to Linux on the IA64 chips.

Does anyone know whether IA64 supports virtualising IA32 code
or does IA32 code have direct hardware access?