qemu-patch-raspberry4/pc-bios/README
Alexey Kardashevskiy 1210481958 pseries: Update SLOF firmware image to qemu-slof-20151103
The changes are:
1. supports recent binutils;
2. 64bit BARs behind PCI bridges supported;
3. Many fixes for USB keyboard support - keys, XHCI;
4. virtio-vga support.

This image was built with:
gcc version 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7) (GCC)
GNU ld version 2.23.2

The full changelog is:
  > version: update to 20151103
  > documentation: Add a clause about signing off
  > qemu/js2x/client: Support binutils >= 2.25.1
  > Fix special keys on USB
  > Fix function keys on USB
  > pci-scan: program 64-bit mem bar range in pci-bridge bar
  > Allow to build SLOF on Little Endian host
  > usb-xhci: add keyboard support
  > usb-xhci: ready the link trb early
  > usb-xhci: scan usb high speed ports
  > usb-xhci: bulk improve event handling loop
  > usb-xhci: return on allocation failure
  > usb-xhci: add delay in shutdown path
  > usb-xhci: event trbs does not need link trb
  > usb-hid: refactor usb key reading
  > takeover: Fix header includes
  > board-js2x: Add missing file dma-function.fs
  > vga: Add support for virtio-vga
  > qemu-vga: Use MMIO BAR instead of legacy IO ports
  > slof: Change call_c() function to a proper assembler function

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2015-11-11 13:28:45 +11:00

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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://repo.or.cz/w/openhackware.git.
- 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 (including QEMU,tcx.bin and QEMU,cgthree.bin) and Sparc64 are built
from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1280.
- 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-20151103.
- 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
- The u-boot binary for e500 comes from the upstream denx u-boot project where
it was compiled using the qemu-ppce500 target.
A git mirror is available at: git://git.qemu-project.org/u-boot.git
The hash used to compile the current version is: 2072e72