qemu/pc-bios/README
aliguori ca7b25e3ab Update to the latest Bochs BIOS
Update the PC BIOS to the latest version, split out the patches into 
patch series, and update the README to point to the new location of the 
Bochs BIOS source tree.

Also update the gitignore to allow the patch queue directory to be used.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6077 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-12-17 21:35:49 +00:00

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- 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 http://repo.or.cz/w/bochs-mirror.git
- 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 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/