diff --git a/SOURCE.md b/SOURCE.md
index 1c5a775..5b528a1 100644
--- a/SOURCE.md
+++ b/SOURCE.md
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ The coreboot source code is available via git:
 
 	git clone https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git
 
-In case there are external patches applied to build coreboot, they are
-available in the sources directory too.
+In case there are external patches applied to build coreboot, they should
+be up for review at review.coreboot.org and included in the Skulls git
+repository's common/download_coreboot.sh
diff --git a/x230/release.sh b/x230/release.sh
index c0b8156..c1237f3 100755
--- a/x230/release.sh
+++ b/x230/release.sh
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ RELEASE_IMAGE_FILE=$(basename "${RELEASE_IMAGE}")
 sha256sum ${RELEASE_IMAGE_FILE} > "${RELEASE_IMAGE_FILE}.sha256"
 
 # copy-in device independent stuff
-cp ../SOURCE.md sources/
+cp ../SOURCE.md .
 
 tar -cJf skulls-x230-"${version}".tar.xz \
 	README.md \
@@ -116,13 +116,13 @@ tar -cJf skulls-x230-"${version}".tar.xz \
 	x230_heads.sh \
 	external_install_bottom.sh \
 	external_install_top.sh \
-	sources \
+	SOURCE.md \
 	"${RELEASE_IMAGE_FILE}" \
 	"${RELEASE_IMAGE_FILE}.sha256"
 
 rm "${RELEASE_IMAGE_FILE}"
 rm "${RELEASE_IMAGE_FILE}.sha256"
-rm sources/SOURCE.md
+rm SOURCE.md
 
 git commit -a -m "update to ${version}"
 git tag -s "${version}" -m "skulls-x230 ${version}"
diff --git a/x230/sources/PATCHES.md b/x230/sources/PATCHES.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bdd9fe..0000000
--- a/x230/sources/PATCHES.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-This describes patches we apply to coreboot's master branch for building
-our release image. If there are any that are put up on review.coreboot.org,
-they are listed in the Skulls git repository in common/download_coreboot.sh