Skylake SoC Support Added To Coreboot

Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 16 July 2015 at 12:44 PM EDT. 1 Comment
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Intel has contributed Skylake SoC support to Coreboot.

Skylake is coming up to the plate and interestingly Intel developers (as opposed to say Google engineers working on Chrome OS devices) have landed initial Skylake SoC support into Coreboot.

This landing of Skylake SoC support affects 118 files in Coreboot and from there changes a fair amount of code within Coreboot. The initial commit landed yesterday.

Now to start seeing some Skylake devices later in the summer...
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