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-- The PC BIOS comes from the Bochs project
- (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/). A patch from bios.diff was applied.
+- The PC BIOS comes from the Bochs project (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/).
+ The patches in bios-pq have been applied. The binary is based on the revision
+ in bios-pq/HEAD with the patches in bios-pq/series applied. The git repo
+ that HEAD refers to is located at
+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
+
+ To build these use the following instructions:
+ using guilt:
+ $ export QEMUSRC=/path/to/qemu/svn
+ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/bochs/bochs.git
+ $ cd bochs
+ $ git checkout -b qemu-bios $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/HEAD)
+
+ $ mkdir -p .git/patches
+ $ ln -s $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq .git/patches/qemu-bios
+ $ touch .git/patches/qemu-bios/status
+ $ guilt push -a
+ $ ./configure
+ $ cd bios
+ $ make
+ $ cp BIOS-bochs-latest $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios.bin
+
+ or alternatively (after the git checkout):
+ $ for p in $(cat $QEMUSRC/pc-bios/bios-pq/series); do git am $p; done
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make bios
- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
- project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
+ project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/). The binary is based on the revision
+ in vgabios-pq/HEAD with the patches in vgabios-pq/series applied. The git
+ repo that HEAD refers to is located at
+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/vgabios/vgabios.git
- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.