Google Pushes A Ton More Chromebook Device Code Into Coreboot

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Pushes A Ton More Chromebook Device Code Into Coreboot

Over night Google engineers landed a bunch more code in Coreboot for supporting new Chromebook devices...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Gru-RK-And-More

[davidbepo]

elm , oak... yay pokemon silver

[uid313]

I wish Coreboot would work on the Dell XPS "Sputnik" developer laptop or the Macbook.

[pal666]

google should make chromedesktop and add support for desktop motherboards to coreboot

[starshipeleven]

google should make chromedesktop and add support for desktop motherboards to coreboot

Would be nice (coreboot does not have the aggravation of most UEFI firmwares), but it's wildly unlikely. People want a laptop, not a desktop.

Desktop in general is retreating slowly back to workstations and gaming.

Therefore, Google has no good reason to.

[pgeorgi]

google should make chromedesktop

That's called Chromebox.

[starshipeleven]

That's called Chromebox.

It's likely selling like cakes... oh no wait.

[pal666]

People want a laptop, not a desktop.

there are more laptops sold than desktops but not several times more. still more than 100m desktops was sold in 2015

[pal666]

That's called Chromebox.

i guess it doesn't use real desktop motherboard

[starshipeleven]

there are more laptops sold than desktops but not several times more. still more than 100m desktops was sold in 2015

As I said: "Desktop in general is retreating slowly back to workstations and gaming."

Google chromesomethings are aimed at home users or average consumer or students, since people in that market segment overwhelmingly buy laptops.

Of course other market segments still buy desktops, but ChromeOS would not sell at all in there just because it is not Windows.