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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.

Stars: 1.6k
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

GPG verification errors in OS boot menu silently make the user return to previous menu Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxboot/heads#1257 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2022
Kernel configs - enabled but unused modules Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1249 · Opened Dec 1, 2022
Future improvements for flash.sh and flash content optimizations Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1233 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2022
DO NOT USE nvramtool TO SET graphics parameter to "Discrete Only" : causes blank screen Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1226 · Opened Oct 17, 2022
Heads' System Information is x86 centric Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1220 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2022
Support W520 Open

help wanted

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

linuxboot/heads#1212 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2022
x330 support Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1204 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Have qemu boards support writeable pflash and internal flashing Open

automated testing buildsystem CI debug enhancement / improvement help wanted UX

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

linuxboot/heads#1203 · 18 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Add BRTFS under Heads (recovery shell purpose) Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1202 · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Set hybrid igpu dgpu by default on boards including dgpu blobs? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxboot/heads#1197 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2022
Add SPI chip info to kgpe-d16 board configs Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1166 · Opened Jun 2, 2022
(NOT WORKING YET): T440p: Easy 5-minute flashing method Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1146 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 3, 2022
x230 (and more): internal flashing heads from lenovobios is possible. (WORKS, BUT WITH CAVEATS. READ THE WHOLE THREAD) Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1143 · 11 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2022
bzImage size issue while porting to new board Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1140 · 15 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2022
Setting a TPM Disk Unlock Key fails without error and is not user friendly. Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1137 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2022
exfat kernel support missing under Heads Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1132 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 7, 2022
Bundle a Release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxboot/heads#1077 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 9, 2021
irc channel Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1064 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 25, 2021
Documentation update: Highlight differences in x230 boards Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1054 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2021
POWER9 (Talos II and Talos II Lite) coreboot beta testers needed Open

postmortem needed

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

linuxboot/heads#1018 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2021
Support diskless platforms while having working TOTP/HOTP Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1006 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2021
Investigate possible chassis intrusion detection implementation Open

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

linuxboot/heads#1000 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2021
Unit tests Open

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

linuxboot/heads#987 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2021
Documentation fails to explain SRWD issue: hardware write protect is currently (mostly) not possible Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxboot/heads#985 · 15 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2021
qemu-linuxboot: ASSERT error when running linuxboot.rom in QEMU Open

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

linuxboot/heads#971 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2021
Default boot device in Info Menu Open

linuxboot/heads#965 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 24, 2021
Can't see console output (grub.cfg missing) Open

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

linuxboot/heads#937 · 30 comments · Opened Dec 20, 2020
Make sure ifdtool unlocks bios and that bioscopy.new is used for extraction (if IFD is replaced. Else we have a locked IFD again) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

linuxboot/heads#933 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2020
Feature: randomize GBE MAC address from Heads Open

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

linuxboot/heads#916 · 15 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 29, 2020
Improvements to scripts under initrd Open

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

linuxboot/heads#885 · 11 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2020
Augment output to offer better boot options to users Open

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

linuxboot/heads#883 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2020
Generalize default boot device configuration to support external devices Open

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

linuxboot/heads#880 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2020
linuxboot based boards not building anymore Open

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

linuxboot/heads#841 · Opened Sep 25, 2020
Feature request: ASUS KCMA-D8 workstation/server board port to Heads Open

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

linuxboot/heads#837 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2020
Overcomming space limitations for fancy features Open

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

linuxboot/heads#818 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 31, 2020
Add ENABLE_DDR_2X_REFRESH support for Sandy/Ivy bridges Open

Bounty/Donations expected enhancement / improvement security

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

linuxboot/heads#803 · Opened Aug 15, 2020
Unlocking disk with keyfile from USB as second factor Open

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

linuxboot/heads#790 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2020
Guixsd vs Heads - How to make it work together? Open

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

linuxboot/heads#753 · 14 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2020
Guixsd/Proxmox installer wont boot issue Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

linuxboot/heads#750 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2020
Re-upstreaming and maintainership of the KGPE-D16 - Cost: 30 000E and counting Open

Bounty/Donations expected help wanted security

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

linuxboot/heads#719 · 111 comments · Opened May 8, 2020
README specifies subset of SPI chips seen in the wild Open

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

linuxboot/heads#716 · 3 comments · Opened May 4, 2020
Measuring PCI devices. Open

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

linuxboot/heads#704 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2020
Booting Arch Linux Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

linuxboot/heads#702 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2020
openbsd and heads Open

Bounty/Donations expected documentation help wanted

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

linuxboot/heads#697 · 32 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2020
Speedup builds by generating a `config.site` Open

enhancement / improvement

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

linuxboot/heads#694 · Opened Mar 10, 2020
CPython integration help needed Open

help wanted

linuxboot/heads#689 · 17 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 5, 2020
how to boot debian by linuxboot in qemu Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

linuxboot/heads#688 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2020
FR: Use Trezor's GPG capability to decrypt LUKS keys Open

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

linuxboot/heads#637 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 9, 2019
Heads build qemu-coreboot vs qemu-linuxboot & project linuxboot build Open

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

linuxboot/heads#623 · Opened Nov 18, 2019
Following The Heads Installation with a Raspberry Open

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

linuxboot/heads#622 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2019

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