ARM as a primary architecture

[DJ Delorie]

> Given that the "pc" sense of BIOS includes having arguments returned in 
> x86 registers, I really don't think that's true.

ARM has registers too...

My point is, the ARM chips *do* support an on-board flash bootloader,
and there's no reason why that bootloader couldn't export a standard
ABI that uses interrupts and register passing, and boot off a standard
attached disk...

... but that's not what the vendors do.