- The PC BIOS comes from the Bochs project (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/).
The patches in bios-pq have been applied. The binary is based on the revision
in bios-pq/HEAD with the patches in bios-pq/series applied. The git repo
that HEAD refers to is located at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
To build these use the following instructions:
using guilt:
$ export QEMUSRC=/path/to/qemu/svn
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
$ cd bochs
$ git checkout -b qemu-bios $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/HEAD)
$ mkdir -p .git/patches
$ ln -s $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq .git/patches/qemu-bios
$ touch .git/patches/qemu-bios/status
$ guilt push -a
$ ./configure
$ cd bios
$ make
$ cp BIOS-bochs-latest $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios.bin
or alternatively (after the git checkout):
$ for p in $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/series); do git am $p; done
$ ./configure
$ make bios
- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/). The binary is based on the revision
in vgabios-pq/HEAD with the patches in vgabios-pq/series applied. The git
repo that HEAD refers to is located at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/vgabios/vgabios.git
- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
- video.x is a PowerMac NDRV compatible driver for a VGA frame
buffer. It comes from the Mac-on-Linux project
(http://www.maconlinux.org/).
- 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 Sparc32 and Sparc64 images are built from SVN revision 395.
The included PowerPC image is built from SVN revision 418.
- The PXE roms come from Rom-o-Matic etherboot 5.4.2.
pcnet32:pcnet32 -- [0x1022,0x2000]
ns8390:winbond940 -- [0x1050,0x0940]
rtl8139:rtl8139 -- [0x10ec,0x8139]
http://rom-o-matic.net/
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