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- The PC BIOS comes from the Bochs project (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/). |
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The patches in bios-pq have been applied. The binary is based on the revision |
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in bios-pq/HEAD with the patches in bios-pq/series applied. The git repo |
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that HEAD refers to is located at |
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git |
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To build these use the following instructions: |
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using guilt: |
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$ export QEMUSRC=/path/to/qemu/svn |
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$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git |
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$ cd bochs |
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$ git checkout -b qemu-bios $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/HEAD) |
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$ mkdir -p .git/patches |
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$ ln -s $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq .git/patches/qemu-bios |
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$ touch .git/patches/qemu-bios/status |
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$ guilt push -a |
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$ ./configure |
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$ cd bios |
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$ make |
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$ cp BIOS-bochs-latest $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios.bin |
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or alternatively (after the git checkout): |
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$ for p in $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/series); do git am $p; done |
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$ ./configure |
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$ make bios |
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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/). The binary is based on the revision |
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in vgabios-pq/HEAD with the patches in vgabios-pq/series applied. The git |
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repo that HEAD refers to is located at |
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/vgabios/vgabios.git |
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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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- video.x is a PowerMac NDRV compatible driver for a VGA frame |
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buffer. It comes from the Mac-on-Linux project |
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(http://www.maconlinux.org/). |
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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 Sparc32, Sparc64 and PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit |
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PPC CPUs) are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 505. |
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- The PXE roms come from Rom-o-Matic etherboot 5.4.2. |
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pcnet32:pcnet32 -- [0x1022,0x2000] |
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ns8390:winbond940 -- [0x1050,0x0940] |
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rtl8139:rtl8139 -- [0x10ec,0x8139] |
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http://rom-o-matic.net/ |