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        Multi Platform IPL

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What we want:

- Optimized for each target.
- Common Hardware Support compilant.
- AMD64, PowerPC, RISC-V, 64x0, 32x0 support.
- SMP support.

How we're going to do that:

- Abstract Memory and I/O. (pci-tree)
- Platform Independent Device Tree. (pci-tree)
- Common Starting point for each core (smp)

Executable Layout:

- 0x80000000/0x00FF/0x1000: Firmware Startup Code
- 0x90000000/0x7c00: Executable Information Header or equivalent.

Error Codes:

- LX0001: Not bootable
- LX0002: Bad arch
- LX0003: Bad revision