qemu/pc-bios/README
Alexander Graf a59106cbbb PPC: update openbios firmware
There were some changes upstream to account for broken usage of mtmsr, so
before applying the mtmsr patch we need to update OpenBIOS, otherwise the
PPC target would break.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-06-17 02:58:29 +02:00

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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 image for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
PowerPC is built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1044
Sparc32 and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1018.
- 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-20110323.
- 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