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 Sparc32 and Sparc64 images are built from SVN revision 237.
  45
  46 - The PXE roms come from Rom-o-Matic etherboot 5.4.2.
  47   pcnet32:pcnet32 -- [0x1022,0x2000]
  48   ns8390:winbond940 -- [0x1050,0x0940]
  49   rtl8139:rtl8139 -- [0x10ec,0x8139]
  50   http://rom-o-matic.net/