pc-bios/README

   1 - SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
   2   See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
   3
   4 - The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
   5   project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
   6
   7 - The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
   8   available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
   9
  10 - OpenBIOS (http://www.openbios.org/) is a free (GPL v2) portable
  11   firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
  12   1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
  13   The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
  14   Sparc32 (including QEMU,tcx.bin) and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN
  15   revision 1229.
  16
  17 - SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
  18   implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware.  The sources are at
  19   https://github.com/aik/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
  20   built from git tag qemu-slof-20131015.
  21
  22 - sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
  23   legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as
  24   if a video card were attached.  The master sources reside in a subversion
  25   repository at http://sgabios.googlecode.com/svn/trunk.  A git mirror is
  26   available at git://git.qemu-project.org/sgabios.git.
  27
  28 - The PXE roms come from the iPXE project. Built with BANNER_TIME 0.
  29   Sources available at http://ipxe.org.  Vendor:Device ID -> ROM mapping:
  30
  31         8086:100e -> pxe-e1000.rom
  32         8086:1209 -> pxe-eepro100.rom
  33         1050:0940 -> pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
  34         1022:2000 -> pxe-pcnet.rom
  35         10ec:8139 -> pxe-rtl8139.rom
  36         1af4:1000 -> pxe-virtio.rom
  37
  38 - The S390 zipl loader is an addition to the official IBM s390-tools
  39   package. That fork is maintained in its own git repository at:
  40   git://repo.or.cz/s390-tools.git
  41
  42 - The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
  43   git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git