Chromebook with coreboot?

[Markus Kübler]

Hallo,

sorry to bother again. The Google Chromebook is supposed to "takes 8
seconds to boot up and use". The hardware is supposed to be some of the
new Atoms. Do they utilize coreboot?

If somebody wanted to compete with this, coreboot would be the best
approach, wouldn't it?

Regards,
Markus

[Thomas Gstädtner]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 15:51, Markus Kübler  wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> sorry to bother again. The Google Chromebook is supposed to "takes 8
> seconds to boot up and use". The hardware is supposed to be some of the
> new Atoms. Do they utilize coreboot?
>
> If somebody wanted to compete with this, coreboot would be the best
> approach, wouldn't it?
>
> Regards,
> Markus

8 seconds is a rather long time for a system like this - also it's
unlikely that they did a Coreboot port to their platform without
contributing anything back (Coreboot is GPL after all, and Google
usually complies with licenses). As it is Intel based, it's fair to
assume that they use EFI.