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1- SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
2  See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
3
4- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
5  project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
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7- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
8  available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
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10- 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.
13  The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
14  Sparc32 and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision
15  1060.
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17- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
18  implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware.  The sources are at
19  https://github.com/dgibson/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
20  built from git tag qemu-slof-20120217.
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22- 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
28- 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:
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31	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
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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
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42- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
43  git://repo.or.cz/qemu-palcode.git
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