Blue Swirl 8aa80ff82f Sparc: update OpenBIOS images to r859
Update Sparc32 and Sparc64 OpenBIOS images to SVN revision 859.

Bring also pc-bios/README up to date including the update performed by
419ef5f1c6a9614e8ddcb0b0f826de692e7e4a43.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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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://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.

- video.x is a PowerMac NDRV compatible driver for a VGA frame
  buffer. It comes from the Mac-on-Linux project
  (http://www.maconlinux.org/).

- 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 image for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs), Sparc32
  and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN revision 859.

- The PXE roms come from Rom-o-Matic gPXE 0.9.9 with BANNER_TIMEOUT=0

  e1000 8086:100E
  eepro100 8086:1209, 8086:1229
  ns8390 1050:0940
  pcnet32 1022:2000
  rtl8139 10ec:8139
  virtio 1af4:1000

  http://rom-o-matic.net/

- 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