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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
bellard33d08432005-07-03 16:45:42 +00008 available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
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-Ayland9a949b92013-07-30 23:11:07 +010014 Sparc32 and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision
15 1198.
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
20 built from git tag qemu-slof-20130430.
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
26 available at git://git.qemu.org/sgabios.git.
27
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
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
Richard Henderson753d11f2011-06-24 11:58:37 -070041
42- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
Richard Hendersonb957a1b2013-07-16 06:48:28 -070043 git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git