qemu/pc-bios/README
Alexander Graf 71652365c5 Revert "Update OpenBIOS images"
This reverts commit 10442558ab.

With the updated OpenBIOS image, -M g3beige fails to boot quik.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Message-id: 1360796292-27078-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-14 08:58:30 -06:00

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- SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
- OpenBIOS (http://www.openbios.org/) is a free (GPL v2) portable
firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
Sparc32 and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision
1063.
- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware. The sources are at
https://github.com/dgibson/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
built from git tag qemu-slof-20121018.
- sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as
if a video card were attached. The master sources reside in a subversion
repository at http://sgabios.googlecode.com/svn/trunk. A git mirror is
available at git://git.qemu.org/sgabios.git.
- The PXE roms come from the iPXE project. Built with BANNER_TIME 0.
Sources available at http://ipxe.org. Vendor:Device ID -> ROM mapping:
8086:100e -> pxe-e1000.rom
8086:1209 -> pxe-eepro100.rom
1050:0940 -> pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
1022:2000 -> pxe-pcnet.rom
10ec:8139 -> pxe-rtl8139.rom
1af4:1000 -> pxe-virtio.rom
- The S390 zipl loader is an addition to the official IBM s390-tools
package. That fork is maintained in its own git repository at:
git://repo.or.cz/s390-tools.git
- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
git://repo.or.cz/qemu-palcode.git