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1c0ced0f3SStefan Weil- SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
2c0ced0f3SStefan Weil  See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
3f5dc4c7cSaliguori
47f5d44e0Sbellard- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
5c34ebfdcSAnthony Liguori  project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
6fa36761dSbellard
7fa36761dSbellard- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
8ebe2aad2SStefan Hajnoczi  available at https://repo.or.cz/openhackware.git.
98d5f07faSbellard
100986ac3bSbellard- OpenBIOS (http://www.openbios.org/) is a free (GPL v2) portable
110986ac3bSbellard  firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
120986ac3bSbellard  1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
130bce98dfSBlue Swirl  The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
149eb08a43SMark Cave-Ayland  Sparc32 (including QEMU,tcx.bin and QEMU,cgthree.bin) and Sparc64 are built
155264917bSMark Cave-Ayland  from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1280.
16eec85c2aSths
17a9f8ad8fSDavid Gibson- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
18a9f8ad8fSDavid Gibson  implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware.  The sources are at
194807ab4fSAlexey Kardashevskiy  https://github.com/aik/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
20583b28d4SAlexey Kardashevskiy  built from git tag qemu-slof-20190114.
21a9f8ad8fSDavid Gibson
226329866fSPaolo Bonzini- sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
236329866fSPaolo Bonzini  legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as
246329866fSPaolo Bonzini  if a video card were attached.  The master sources reside in a subversion
256329866fSPaolo Bonzini  repository at http://sgabios.googlecode.com/svn/trunk.  A git mirror is
26c814b177SStefan Hajnoczi  available at https://git.qemu.org/git/sgabios.git.
276329866fSPaolo Bonzini
2836d8d02dSAlex Williamson- The PXE roms come from the iPXE project. Built with BANNER_TIME 0.
2936d8d02dSAlex Williamson  Sources available at http://ipxe.org.  Vendor:Device ID -> ROM mapping:
3074b12befSAnthony Liguori
3136d8d02dSAlex Williamson	8086:100e -> pxe-e1000.rom
3236d8d02dSAlex Williamson	8086:1209 -> pxe-eepro100.rom
3336d8d02dSAlex Williamson	1050:0940 -> pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
3436d8d02dSAlex Williamson	1022:2000 -> pxe-pcnet.rom
3536d8d02dSAlex Williamson	10ec:8139 -> pxe-rtl8139.rom
3636d8d02dSAlex Williamson	1af4:1000 -> pxe-virtio.rom
37fe270d04SAlexander Graf
38753d11f2SRichard Henderson- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
3906bef596SStefan Hajnoczi  https://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git
404e73c781SAlexander Graf
414e73c781SAlexander Graf- The u-boot binary for e500 comes from the upstream denx u-boot project where
424e73c781SAlexander Graf  it was compiled using the qemu-ppce500 target.
43c814b177SStefan Hajnoczi  A git mirror is available at: https://git.qemu.org/git/u-boot.git
444e73c781SAlexander Graf  The hash used to compile the current version is: 2072e72
45bcad45deSCédric Le Goater
46bcad45deSCédric Le Goater- Skiboot (https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/) is an OPAL
47bcad45deSCédric Le Goater  (OpenPower Abstraction Layer) firmware for OpenPOWER systems. It can
48bcad45deSCédric Le Goater  run an hypervisor OS or simply a host OS on the "baremetal"
49bcad45deSCédric Le Goater  platform, also known as the PowerNV (Non-Virtualized) platform.
500806b30cSMark Cave-Ayland
510806b30cSMark Cave-Ayland- QemuMacDrivers (https://github.com/ozbenh/QemuMacDrivers) is a project to
520806b30cSMark Cave-Ayland  provide virtualised drivers for PPC MacOS guests.
53*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek
54*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek- The "edk2-*.fd.bz2" images are platform firmware binaries and matching UEFI
55*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  variable store templates built from the TianoCore community's EFI Development
56*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  Kit II project
57*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II>. The images
58*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  were built at git tag "edk2-stable201903". The firmware binaries bundle parts
59*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  of the OpenSSL project, at git tag "OpenSSL_1_1_0j" (the OpenSSL tag is a
60*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  function of the edk2 tag). Licensing information is given in
61*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  "edk2-licenses.txt". The image files are described by the JSON documents in
62*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  the "pc-bios/descriptors" directory, which conform to the
63*13814db0SLaszlo Ersek  "docs/interop/firmware.json" schema.
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