ROM images no longer include SeaBIOS

Instead, the user adds it afterwards. Documentation and scripts updated.

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 				</ul>
 			</li>
 			<li><a href="#build">How to build your ROM's</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#build_addseabios">Add SeaBIOS to your ROM's</a></li>
 		</ul>
 
 	<h2>Supported hardware</h2>
@@ -602,6 +603,44 @@
 
 <hr/>
 
+	<h1 id="build_addseabios">How to add SeaBIOS to your ROM's</h1>
+
+		<p>
+			SeaBIOS isn't really needed since libreboot uses the GRUB payload which
+			is much better (for several reasons), so it is no longer included in the ROM
+			images by default. Instead, you can add it afterwards.
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+			In the supplied binary archives, or in your own (if you did 'build-release') you can add SeaBIOS
+			to the ROM images, along with SeaVGABIOS which is a free/libre Video BIOS implementation that wraps
+			around the 'native graphics initializitation' code in coreboot, for boards that have support for it.
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+			First, <a href="#build_dependencies">install the build dependencies</a>.
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+			Build cbfstool:<br/>
+			$ <b>./builddeps-cbfstool</b>
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+			Now:<br/>
+			$ <b>./addseabios</b>
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+			SeaBIOS and SeaVGABIOS (which the build scripts created, and the build-release script put - compiled - 
+			inside the binary archive) have now been added to all of the ROM images under ./bin/. A GRUB menuentry will show
+			up when you boot your machine, allowing you to use SeaBIOS.
+		</p>
+
+		<p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a></p>
+
+<hr/>
+
 	<h1 id="supported_list">List of supported hardware</h1>
 
 		<p>