14 DAY TRIAL // Back in November, talk about a Bay Trail-powered Chromebook started to surface, after such a model was spotted in the Chromium source code, disguised under the “Bayley Bay” and “rambi” monikers.
Now it has been announced that Intel’s Bay Trail platform will be supported by Coreboot, which is yet another indication that a Chromebook following the lines outlined above is on its way.
Aaron Durbin of Google Chrome/Chromium team wrote on a Git commit that “the initial Bay Trail code is intended to support the mobile and desktop version of Bay Trail. This support can train memory and execute through ramstage.”
Since Google developers are slipping this Atom SoC support into the Coreboot project, the Bay Trail Chromebook might come soon, just as it has been the case with other Chromebooks that use this type of open-source “BIOS” implementation.