[PATCH] README: document which config options to use

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

In the interim of moving ACPI tables out of
seabios, developers should get the config from
QEMU tree to keep things in sync.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
---
 README | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index a87a0ad..c6a2ee4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
 This code implements an X86 legacy bios.  It is intended to be
 compiled using standard gnu tools (eg, gas and gcc).

-To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory.  The
-resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image.
+To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory.

+QEMU might only need a part of the BIOS binary, and different QEMU versions
+might need different seabios configurations to work well.  To build
+a bios for qemu, one needs to copy the config file from qemu source tree:
+
+	cp $QEMU_DIR/roms/config.seabios $SEABIOS_DIR/.config
+
+(where $QEMU_DIR is the qemu source directory, $SEABIOS_DIR points to the
+seabios build directory); and then run make in the seabios main directory with
+this configuration:
+
+	make olddefconfig
+
+The resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image.

Testing of images:

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 03/21/13 13:30, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> In the interim of moving ACPI tables out of
> seabios, developers should get the config from
> QEMU tree to keep things in sync.
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
>
> README | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index a87a0ad..c6a2ee4 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
>  This code implements an X86 legacy bios.  It is intended to be
>  compiled using standard gnu tools (eg, gas and gcc).
>
> -To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory.  The
> -resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image.
> +To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory.
>
> +QEMU might only need a part of the BIOS binary, and different QEMU versions
> +might need different seabios configurations to work well.  To build
> +a bios for qemu, one needs to copy the config file from qemu source tree:
> cp $QEMU_DIR/roms/config.seabios $SEABIOS_DIR/.config
>
> +(where $QEMU_DIR is the qemu source directory, $SEABIOS_DIR points to the
> +seabios build directory); and then run make in the seabios main directory with
> +this configuration:
> make olddefconfig
>
> +The resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image.
>
> Testing of images:

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek

(I'll unavoidably test this anyway.)

Thanks for the heads-up again!
Laszlo