Google Pushes A Ton More Chromebook Device Code Into Coreboot

Written by Michael Larabel in Coreboot on 9 May 2016 at 08:28 AM EDT. 10 Comments
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Over night Google engineers landed a bunch more code in Coreboot for supporting new Chromebook devices.

Elm was added as a derivative of Oak. This family is for devices with a MediaTek SoC.

There were also a number of Rockchip hardware changes and as part of that changes to the Gru family.

As part of this big batch of updates there were also some Skylake work and more.

In total there were more than 50 patches committed last night to mainline Coreboot around Google's interests for Chromebook devices.
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