Intel’s 14th-generation Core ‘Meteor Lake’ series has recently seen support for Coreboot code, which is made by the silicon giant’s engineers. This is a new step in the development of Intel’s next-generation CPUs, which are scheduled to arrive in 2023.
Intel Meteor Lake gets its Coreboot support
The Intel Meteor Lake processor family is considered the 14th generation of Core processors, which has a launch window of 2023. This generation is going to be built with an Intel Node 4, and a completely different internal design than previously used, mixing the use of tiling and 3D stacking.
In recent years, companies like Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA have been coding in Linux for their new hardware, even years before release, and Meteor Lake seems to be no exception.
Coreboot is an application project focused on replacing the proprietary firmware (UEFI or BIOS) found on most computer systems. Intel has this week merged the open-source firmware project Coreboot with the Meteor Lake support code in an early state.
You can take a look at the current Meteor Lake support in the commit on GitHub. Coreboot support is currently restricted to reference motherboards and applicable compatible Chromebooks. Intel is currently showcasing Alder Lake support, but in open source, so in the future Meteor Lake will also have similar support, or so we think.