-- 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
+- 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.
-- 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 image for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs)
+ is built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1044 and Sparc32 and Sparc64
+ images are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1045.
+
+- 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 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 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