xemu/pc-bios/README
Alexey Kardashevskiy 9d0e1dac10 pseries: Update SLOF firmware image
SLOF git commit is e2e8ac901e617573ea383f9cffd136146d0675a4

The main changes are:
* fixed bug with not passing arguments from -append
* client-architecture-support hypercall
* netboot
* USB stack fixes

The full list of changes:
  > client-architecture-support: fix wrong version read
  > client-architecture-support: fix redundant stack drop
  > Update device tree returned by CAS hypercall
  > fdt: introduce fdt-init
  > Add ibm,client-architecture-support method
  > Kernel parameter passed from qemu commandline ignored
  > Allow more than one client to open net devices simultaneously
  > ci: add missing close in else condition
  > Add GPT support
  > pci: fix interrupt-map for bridges
  > usb-ohci: preserve the toggleCarry bit in ED
  > usb-ohci: done_head processing fixes
  > usb-ohci: update init and rationalize timings
  > usb-msc: handle stall and other fixes
  > scsi: make probe more error resilient
  > usb-core: Add CLEAR FEATURE api
  > Implement range allocator
  > Remove bcm57xx network driver as module
  > Remove e1000 network driver as module
  > Remove virtio-net network driver as module
  > Remove veth network driver as module
  > Add missing close-dev in ping
  > Remove lodable network driver modules and related functions
  > Add bcm57xx network driver in libbcm
  > Add e1000 network driver in libe1k
  > Add virtio-net driver in libvirtio
  > Add veth driver in libveth
  > Get MAC address for client interface module
  > Add SLOF usleep wrapper
  > Add SLOF pci wrapper functions
  > Fix 'canon' client interface

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2013-11-08 04:33:19 +01:00

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- SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
- 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.
- 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 images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
Sparc32 and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision
1229.
- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware. The sources are at
https://github.com/aik/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
built from git tag qemu-slof-20131015.
- sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as
if a video card were attached. The master sources reside in a subversion
repository at http://sgabios.googlecode.com/svn/trunk. A git mirror is
available at git://git.qemu-project.org/sgabios.git.
- The PXE roms come from the iPXE project. Built with BANNER_TIME 0.
Sources available at http://ipxe.org. Vendor:Device ID -> ROM mapping:
8086:100e -> pxe-e1000.rom
8086:1209 -> pxe-eepro100.rom
1050:0940 -> pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
1022:2000 -> pxe-pcnet.rom
10ec:8139 -> pxe-rtl8139.rom
1af4:1000 -> pxe-virtio.rom
- The S390 zipl loader is an addition to the official IBM s390-tools
package. That fork is maintained in its own git repository at:
git://repo.or.cz/s390-tools.git
- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git