Merge branch 'master' of git://git.qemu.org/qemu

[qemu.git] / pc-bios / README

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-- 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
+- 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 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
+  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.
 
-- 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 237.
-  The included PowerPC image is built from SVN revision 373.
-
-- 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/
+  The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
+  Sparc32 and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision
+  1047.
+
+- 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-20111013.
+
+- 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