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Stefan Weilc0ced0f2010-01-07 19:27:49 +01001- SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
2 See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
aliguorif5dc4c72008-12-19 16:22:03 +00003
bellard7f5d44e2004-06-25 15:02:13 +00004- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
Anthony Liguoric34ebfd2009-09-04 10:13:29 -05005 project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
bellardfa367612004-07-10 16:57:29 +00006
7- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
Andreas Färberfd3ece22014-03-12 17:16:56 +01008 available at http://repo.or.cz/w/openhackware.git.
bellard8d5f07f2004-10-04 21:23:09 +00009
bellard0986ac32006-06-14 12:36:32 +000010- 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.
Blue Swirl0bce98d2011-08-29 21:13:29 +000013 The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
Mark Cave-Ayland9eb08a42013-10-15 21:03:04 +010014 Sparc32 (including QEMU,tcx.bin and QEMU,cgthree.bin) and Sparc64 are built
Mark Cave-Ayland52649172014-03-10 08:48:31 +000015 from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1280.
thseec85c22007-01-05 17:41:07 +000016
David Gibsona9f8ad82011-04-01 15:15:34 +110017- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
18 implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware. The sources are at
Alexey Kardashevskiy4807ab42013-04-30 03:42:23 +000019 https://github.com/aik/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
Alexey Kardashevskiya438fa12017-03-03 13:32:50 +110020 built from git tag qemu-slof-20170303.
David Gibsona9f8ad82011-04-01 15:15:34 +110021
Paolo Bonzini63298662011-11-03 15:14:00 +010022- 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
Stefan Hajnoczi85938982013-10-11 14:52:38 +020026 available at git://git.qemu-project.org/sgabios.git.
Paolo Bonzini63298662011-11-03 15:14:00 +010027
Alex Williamson36d8d022011-04-18 11:46:41 -060028- 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:
Anthony Liguori74b12be2009-10-30 09:23:27 -050030
Alex Williamson36d8d022011-04-18 11:46:41 -060031 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
Alexander Graffe270d02010-04-20 19:37:13 +020037
Richard Henderson753d11f2011-06-24 11:58:37 -070038- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
Richard Hendersonb957a1b2013-07-16 06:48:28 -070039 git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git
Alexander Graf4e73c782014-01-20 00:25:40 +010040
41- The u-boot binary for e500 comes from the upstream denx u-boot project where
42 it was compiled using the qemu-ppce500 target.
43 A git mirror is available at: git://git.qemu-project.org/u-boot.git
44 The hash used to compile the current version is: 2072e72
Cédric Le Goaterbcad45d2016-10-22 11:46:34 +020045
46- Skiboot (https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/) is an OPAL
47 (OpenPower Abstraction Layer) firmware for OpenPOWER systems. It can
48 run an hypervisor OS or simply a host OS on the "baremetal"
49 platform, also known as the PowerNV (Non-Virtualized) platform.