There's some evidence of it running with rumprun (which appeals more to me than Ling -- I want to run the standard BEAM, and I want to run it on bare metal, because I can fill multiple machines and don't want to exchange an OS for a hypervisor).

https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun-packages/tree/master/e...

http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1474729921...

I'm not sure if there's any news on it since then.