I've been looking at what it would take to do ia64 with linuxbios.
problems: - PAL is code that intel ships to turn on the chip. This code will always be in binary form. - SAL is code that a vendor releases to turn on their northbridge etc. This will also always be proprietary - EFI is the worst firmware in the known universe. This is supposed to be open and replaceable. HA! Intel and others have conspired to make this very hard. So, we're looking at how to do this, but at the moment it is tough. The ia64 boxes also break all known records for slow boot. yikes. ron
