I wanted to bring to attention Intel's Platform Innovation Framework for Extensible Firmware Interface since its goals overlap with those LinuxBIOS a little bit. After reading the article at _http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3790951165.html_ (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3790951165.html) , I had some questions about the ability of LinuxBIOS to support next-generation hardware. It looks like Intel wants to change the whole firmware landscape with EFI. If such a framework will be truly open and support legacy systems, it'll make LinuxBIOS redundant, wouldn't it? What about newer architectures like those built around the Itanium? Will LinuxBIOS be able to scale up as well as EFI? Those are questions that I wanted to throw out there.