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A minimal Linux that runs as a coreboot or LinuxBoot(UEFI's DXE replacement) ROM payload to provide a secure, flexible boot environment for laptops, workstations and servers.

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Forks: 211
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 243
Avg merge: 4d 21h
Merged PRs (30d): 6

Dominant language: Makefile
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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243 open issues indexed

Debian ISO cannot USB boot from exfat formatted partition Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1902 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2025
ns70 being supported or not supported by ns50 under Dasharo coreboot fork, then Heads by Nitrokey fork and support? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1887 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 15, 2025
mitigate relay attacks Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1881 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2024
Repeat question prompts on unexpected input Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

linuxboot/heads#1880 · Opened Dec 25, 2024
Consider switching to StageX to build Heads Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

linuxboot/heads#1877 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2024
request command line tool to generate usb boot hashes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1873 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2024
Streamline verification of root hashes, please Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1872 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2024
PR0 needs porting of upstream patch to downstream forks Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

linuxboot/heads#1868 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 29, 2024
Verify presence of CMOS century bit being set in coreboot for all boards Open

enhancement / improvement feature freeze - 2025-01-30

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

linuxboot/heads#1854 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2024
Investigate emulation possibilities (kvm/qemu) of Nitrokey usb security dongles Open

automated testing help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1842 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 8, 2024
Rollback firmware flashing in case iinternal flash error (brick rollback in case bootblock region being WP) Open

enhancement / improvement initrd installation UX

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1839 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 5, 2024
Workstations support with variable dGPU : SeaBIOS chainloading of Heads needed? Open

help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1820 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2024
Turn discussions into issues, close discussions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1815 · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Bootguard, CSME and Intel gen 14th+ (Meteor Lake): S3 deprecated but still functional. Might break with future firmware/microcode updates Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

linuxboot/heads#1801 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2024
Externalize Makefile helpers into scripts to move boards from tested/untested/unmaintained Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1790 · Opened Sep 9, 2024
Stamp out exFAT warnings at the root Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1788 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2024
Consider readding CONFIG_DRIVERS_INTEL_WIFI=y to all boards Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1782 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
KGPE-D16 Configs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1770 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2024
Find orgs willing to host Heads/coreboot tarball mirrors from Purism Open

feature freeze - 2025-01-30

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1767 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2024
Porting heads to Galago Pro 5, built ROM fails to boot Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1765 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Switch p256/rsa3072 to rsa4096 in oem-factory-reset Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1764 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2024
remove note for t530 being untested under BOARD_TESTERS.md Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

linuxboot/heads#1762 · Opened Aug 26, 2024
Create Makefile target/helper to build Heads payload seperately from coreboot Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1751 · Opened Aug 7, 2024
Add more detailed maintainer notes under README.md (oldconfig->defconfig->oldconfig) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

linuxboot/heads#1724 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2024
Talos II - GPG prompts wait for input on BMC and timeouts, preventing signing from main console (from actual keyboard and gpg prompt on physical display) Open

feature freeze - 2025-01-30 help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1710 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2024
Switch all Linux config schedulers out of performance schedulers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

linuxboot/heads#1705 · Opened Jun 21, 2024
Update nv41/ns50 intel_iommu=igfx_off (librem 11 = GOP igfx) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1701 · Opened Jun 13, 2024
Language selection Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

linuxboot/heads#1694 · Opened May 31, 2024
Force reboot between tpm reset+sign /boot and DUK for non-HOTP deployments ? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

linuxboot/heads#1691 · Opened May 28, 2024
Merge heads-wiki repo into a heads-wiki subdir of this project to render at osresearch.net and archive for reference? (long-term plan) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

linuxboot/heads#1689 · 1 comment · Opened May 24, 2024
Review CONFIG_ONBOARD_VGA_IS_PRIMARY enablement for dGPU enabled boards Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1686 · 2 comments · Opened May 23, 2024
Console driven flashrom write progress sometimes stay at 0% on internal firmware upgrade Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1665 · 1 comment · Opened May 5, 2024
Coreboot and Libreboot newly supported HP EliteBook 820 G2 sometimes soon in heads? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1664 · 2 comments · Opened May 5, 2024
Add support for Acer Chromebook 515 Plus (CB515-2H) / Google Omnigul Platform Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1663 · 4 comments · Opened May 5, 2024
Boot option whiptail menu not accepting `a` as abort key despite saying it would Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxboot/heads#1652 · Opened Apr 23, 2024
Make TOTP (+ HOTP) verification possible **without OS** installed Open

enhancement / improvement feature freeze - 2025-01-30 help wanted UX

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1651 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 22, 2024
Add ability to configure some important coreboot config settings Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1647 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2024
UX issues during OEM factory reset PIN / Password questionnaire Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxboot/heads#1645 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2024
Create seperate targets/*.mk files: Add TPM1/TPM2/HOTP/Common/whiptail/fbwhiptail/tethering others. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1643 · Opened Apr 19, 2024
nv41/ns50 : How to update EC firmware Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1639 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2024
[meta-issue] Push OEMs to maintain+ detach sign their ISOs and inlude their distro public key in tree Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1637 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2024
Validate LUKS headers for boots without TPM Disk Unlock Key Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1629 · Opened Apr 2, 2024
Replace GnuPG with Sequoia Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1618 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 14, 2024
Provide OS integration to sign /boot and/or root during updates Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1615 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 20, 2024
Logo customization option in Heads menu Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxboot/heads#1613 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 15, 2024
Be more flexible with TPM2 hash algorithms for extending PCR Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1612 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2024
Investigate exposing coreboot tables through sysfs for x86 (so kexec to xen can expose them to dom0 for cbmem) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxboot/heads#1611 · Opened Feb 14, 2024
review bin/fetch scripts to try mirrors when first one fails instead of retryning same mirror Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1610 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 14, 2024
Manjaro and Garuda ISOs won't boot automatically Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1605 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2024
Heads may accept unsigned files indicating a /boot update came from a package manager Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

linuxboot/heads#1600 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 1, 2024

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