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-- The PC BIOS comes from the Bochs project
-  (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/).
-- The VGA BIOS comes from the LGPL VGA bios project
-  (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
+- 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 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