Skulls - not quite Heads
pre-built coreboot images with an easy
installation process
Skulls makes it easy to install an unlocked, up-to-date and easy to use
coreboot-based BIOS on your laptop.
- unlocked: software update after first-time flashing / no restrictions for connected hardware
- easy to use: SeaBIOS - simply a boot menu, compatible with Windows and Linux
- up to date: Frequently a new image with the latest versions of all components
Supported Laptops
When do we do a release?
Either when
- There is a new SeaBIOS release,
- There is a new Intel microcode release (for our CPU model),
- There is new coreboot development that affects us, or
- We change the config
How we build
Alternatives
We aim to be the easiest possible coreboot distribution - both
to install and to use. And since our flash image is unlocked to enable
software updates, it's easy to move to alternative systems from it:
- Heads - a coreboot distribution
with pre-built (or reproducibly buildable) flash images (for the X230 and others). Heads
includes Linux, with tools to create a trusted boot chain using your GPG key
and the TPM.
- libreboot - a coreboot distribution with pre-built
image releases. The X230 is currently not supported (the X200 is) - libreboot
images are built from free software only and include the GRUB bootloader.