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- SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
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  See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
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- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
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  project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
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- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
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  available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
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- OpenBIOS (http://www.openbios.org/) is a free (GPL v2) portable
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  firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
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  1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
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  The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
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  Sparc32 (including QEMU,tcx.bin) and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN
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  revision 1229.
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- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
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  implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware.  The sources are at
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  https://github.com/aik/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
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  built from git tag qemu-slof-20131015.
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- sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
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  legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as
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  if a video card were attached.  The master sources reside in a subversion
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  repository at http://sgabios.googlecode.com/svn/trunk.  A git mirror is
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  available at git://git.qemu-project.org/sgabios.git.
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- The PXE roms come from the iPXE project. Built with BANNER_TIME 0.
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  Sources available at http://ipxe.org.  Vendor:Device ID -> ROM mapping:
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	8086:100e -> pxe-e1000.rom
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	8086:1209 -> pxe-eepro100.rom
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	1050:0940 -> pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
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	1022:2000 -> pxe-pcnet.rom
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	10ec:8139 -> pxe-rtl8139.rom
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	1af4:1000 -> pxe-virtio.rom
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- The S390 zipl loader is an addition to the official IBM s390-tools
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  package. That fork is maintained in its own git repository at:
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  git://repo.or.cz/s390-tools.git
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- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
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  git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git