pc-bios/README

   1 - The PC BIOS comes from the Bochs project (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/).
   2   The patches in bios-pq have been applied. The binary is based on the revision
   3   in bios-pq/HEAD with the patches in bios-pq/series applied.  The git repo
   4   that HEAD refers to is located at
   5   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
   6
   7   To build these use the following instructions:
   8   using guilt:
   9   $ export QEMUSRC=/path/to/qemu/svn
  10   $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
  11   $ cd bochs
  12   $ git checkout -b qemu-bios $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/HEAD)
  13
  14   $ mkdir -p .git/patches
  15   $ ln -s $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq .git/patches/qemu-bios
  16   $ touch .git/patches/qemu-bios/status
  17   $ guilt push -a
  18   $ ./configure
  19   $ cd bios
  20   $ make
  21   $ cp BIOS-bochs-latest $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios.bin
  22
  23   or alternatively (after the git checkout):
  24   $ for p in $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/series); do git am $p; done
  25   $ ./configure
  26   $ make bios
  27
  28 - The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
  29   project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).  The binary is based on the revision
  30   in vgabios-pq/HEAD with the patches in vgabios-pq/series applied.  The git
  31   repo that HEAD refers to is located at
  32   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/vgabios/vgabios.git
  33
  34 - The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
  35   available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
  36
  37 - video.x is a PowerMac NDRV compatible driver for a VGA frame
  38   buffer. It comes from the Mac-on-Linux project
  39   (http://www.maconlinux.org/).
  40
  41 - OpenBIOS (http://www.openbios.org/) is a free (GPL v2) portable
  42   firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
  43   1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
  44   The included images for Sparc32, Sparc64 and PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit
  45   PPC CPUs) are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 569.
  46
  47 - The PXE roms come from Rom-o-Matic etherboot 5.4.2.
  48   pcnet32:pcnet32 -- [0x1022,0x2000]
  49   ns8390:winbond940 -- [0x1050,0x0940]
  50   rtl8139:rtl8139 -- [0x10ec,0x8139]
  51   http://rom-o-matic.net/