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Annotation of qemu/pc-bios/README, revision 1.1.1.6

1.1.1.5   root        1: - The PC BIOS comes from the Bochs project (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/).
                      2:   The patches in bios-pq have been applied. The binary is based on the revision
                      3:   in bios-pq/HEAD with the patches in bios-pq/series applied.  The git repo
                      4:   that HEAD refers to is located at
                      5:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
                      6: 
                      7:   To build these use the following instructions:
                      8:   using guilt:
                      9:   $ export QEMUSRC=/path/to/qemu/svn
                     10:   $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
                     11:   $ cd bochs
                     12:   $ git checkout -b qemu-bios $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/HEAD)
                     13: 
                     14:   $ mkdir -p .git/patches
                     15:   $ ln -s $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq .git/patches/qemu-bios
                     16:   $ touch .git/patches/qemu-bios/status
                     17:   $ guilt push -a
                     18:   $ ./configure
                     19:   $ cd bios
                     20:   $ make
                     21:   $ cp BIOS-bochs-latest $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios.bin
                     22: 
                     23:   or alternatively (after the git checkout):
                     24:   $ for p in $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/series); do git am $p; done
                     25:   $ ./configure
                     26:   $ make bios
1.1       root       27: 
                     28: - The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
1.1.1.5   root       29:   project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).  The binary is based on the revision
                     30:   in vgabios-pq/HEAD with the patches in vgabios-pq/series applied.  The git
                     31:   repo that HEAD refers to is located at
                     32:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/vgabios/vgabios.git
1.1       root       33: 
                     34: - The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
                     35:   available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
                     36: 
                     37: - video.x is a PowerMac NDRV compatible driver for a VGA frame
                     38:   buffer. It comes from the Mac-on-Linux project
                     39:   (http://www.maconlinux.org/).
1.1.1.2   root       40: 
                     41: - OpenBIOS (http://www.openbios.org/) is a free (GPL v2) portable
                     42:   firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
                     43:   1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
1.1.1.5   root       44:   The included images for Sparc32, Sparc64 and PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit
1.1.1.6 ! root       45:   PPC CPUs) are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 505.
1.1.1.3   root       46: 
                     47: - The PXE roms come from Rom-o-Matic etherboot 5.4.2.
                     48:   pcnet32:pcnet32 -- [0x1022,0x2000]
                     49:   ns8390:winbond940 -- [0x1050,0x0940]
                     50:   rtl8139:rtl8139 -- [0x10ec,0x8139]
                     51:   http://rom-o-matic.net/

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