That's awesome. Back in the day this was the strong point of eCOS which was a bare metal "platform" for running essentially one application on x86 hardware. The x86 ecosystem has gotten so complicated that being able to do this can get you better performance for an "embedded" app than running on top of Linux or another embedded OS. That translates into your appliance type device using lower cost chips which is a win. When I was playing around with eCos a lot of the digital signage market was using it.