[geeks] PC-BIOS over serial

[Bill Green]

One of the best things about SPARC hardware is OpenFirmware.

Is there anything similar currently available in the commodity PC realm? 
I'm thinking about building a headless Atom machine.  Obviously I can 
install / run the OS over a serial console, but if possible I'd like to 
be able to do initial setup that way too. It seems like EFI might be 
able to do this?  Does anybody know if there are Atom boards with EFI 
yet? Or are there other solutions I'm not aware of?

Thanks,
Bill