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430415f2 1 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
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2 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
3 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
54d43f70 4 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
33d68b5f 5 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
115646b6 6 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
5a5012ec 7 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
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8 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzei Zaborowski)
9 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
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10 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
11 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
12 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
6ada7453 13 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
239fbd86 14 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
981623fe 15 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
ad0504b5 16
7b9c30c5 17version 0.9.0:
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18
19 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
20 - Async file I/O API
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21 - New qcow2 disk image format
22 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
f0e42172 23 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
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24 - SMM support
25 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
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26 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
27 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
284ec167 28 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
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29 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
30 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
31 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
32 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
33 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
83f64091 34
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35version 0.8.2:
36
856860f5 37 - ACPI support
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38 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
39 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
40 - VNC server fixes
41 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
9529ebc2 42 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
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43 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
44 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
63301264 45 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
beac80cd 46 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
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47 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
48 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
49 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
50 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
51 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
52 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
a08beb33 53
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54version 0.8.1:
55
56 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
57 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
fd06c375 58 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
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59 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
60 - SSE3 support
9529ebc2 61 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
27c7ca7e 62 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
24236869 63 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
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64 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
65 - USB fixes
66 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
210fe0be 67
90dc3b39 68version 0.8.0:
1d14ffa9 69
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70 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
71 cpu (Paul Brook)
72 - SMP support
1d14ffa9 73 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
6f5f11a5 74 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
1d14ffa9 75 - DirectSound driver (malc)
d5d11eac 76 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
6f5f11a5 77 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
1d14ffa9 78 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bb36d470 79 - Initial USB support
f8d179e3 80 - Linux host serial port access
e57a8c0e 81 - Linux host low level parallel port access
41d03949 82 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
ea31eb5b 83 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
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84 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
85 - NX bit support
ba3c64fb 86 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
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87 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
88 (Johannes Schindelin)
f8d179e3 89
a7c15abb 90version 0.7.2:
3b46e624 91
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92 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
93 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
94 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
95 - better user net performances
96
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97version 0.7.1:
98
99 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
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100 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
101 N. Oleynik)
8979b227 102 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
3475187d 103 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
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104 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
105 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
33d08439 106 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
a7c15abb 107 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
de167e41 108
a8753c34 109version 0.7.0:
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111 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
112 - user mode networking bug fix
113 - undocumented FPU ops support
a07167d3 114 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
6a78ece5 115 - 'pidfile' option
585d0ed9 116 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
3d11d0eb 117 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
808c4954 118 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bdfaf503 119 - added generic 64 bit target support
a8753c34 120 - x86_64 target support
bdfaf503 121 - initial APIC support
664e0f19 122 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
6508fe59 123 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
99c475ab 124 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
a8753c34 125 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
99c475ab 126 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
b7bcbe95 127 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
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128 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
129 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
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130 - Samba 3 support
131 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
a8753c34 132 - generic FPU emulation code
6a0f9e82 133 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bed5cd80 134
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135version 0.6.1:
136
137 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
138 - Virtual console support
05d5818c 139 - Better monitor line edition
5fafdf24 140 - New block device layer
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141 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
142 transparent decompression
143 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
144 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
c7f74643 145 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
9bf05444 146 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
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147 - Support for not executable data sections
148 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
149 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
150 Wormley)
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151 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
152 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
153 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
e95c8d51 154 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
2518bd0d 155 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
d63d307f 156 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
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157 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
158 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
159 the virtual consoles.
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160 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
161 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
162 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
d75d9f6b 163 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
61a8c4ec 164 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
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165 - VGA font change fix
166 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
49b3b9fb 167
d08c49aa 168version 0.6.0:
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169
170 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
171 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
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172 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
173 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
174 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
175 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
176 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
177 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
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178 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
179 - PCI support
180 - NE2K PCI support
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181 - dummy VGA PCI support
182 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
b54ad049 183 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
15aeac38 184 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
be3edd95 185 - added '-localtime' option
7e71f16f 186 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
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187 - APM and system shutdown support
188 - Fixed system reset
70867490 189 - Support for other PC BIOSes
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190 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
191 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
d08c49aa 192 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
7e71f16f 193 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
44c513c4 194
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195version 0.5.5:
196
197 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
198 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
199 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
a1b74fe8 200 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
66201e2d 201 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
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202 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
203 - FDC fixes for Win98
b06eddd3 204
2f0c934e 205version 0.5.4:
3b46e624 206
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207 - qemu-fast fixes
208 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
209 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
210 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
211 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
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212 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
213 - User mode network stack
214 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
52c00a5f 215 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
2f0c934e 216
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217version 0.5.3:
218
6411cfb6 219 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
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220 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
221 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
222 - CPU interrupt fixes
223 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
22a46c55 224 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
94fe4f9f 225 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
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226 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
227 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
228 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
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229 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
230 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
231 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
232 - graphical x86 linux loader
5fafdf24 233 - command line monitor
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234 - generic removable device support
235 - support of CD-ROM change
236 - multiple network interface support
bc51c5c9 237 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
d9d849fc 238 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
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239 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
240 - VM save/restore commands
241 - new timer API
242 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
67b915a5 243 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bb27c190 244
efe160c5 245version 0.5.2:
2be3bc02 246
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247 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
248 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
249 switching tasks
250 - improved qemu-fast speed
251 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
252 softmmu mode).
253 - fixed IO checking
254 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
255 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
256 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
257 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
258 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
259 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
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260 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
261 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
262 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
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263 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
264 - fixed xadd same reg bug
265 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
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266 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
267 - task gate and NT flag fixes
e98c8721 268 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
efe160c5 269
9c3ad574 270version 0.5.1:
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272 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
273 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
274 - A20 support
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275 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
276 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
277 - SB16 emulation (malc)
278 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
279 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
280 - Full task switching/task gate support
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281 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
282 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
3811a291 283 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
9c3ad574 284
285dc330 285version 0.5.0:
3b46e624 286
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287 - full hardware level VGA emulation
288 - graphical display with SDL
289 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
290 - popw (%esp) fix
291 - mov to/from segment data width fix
292 - added real mode support
0806e3f6 293 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
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294 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
295 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
296 - multi-target build
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297 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
298 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
299 - correct single stepping thru string operations
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300 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
301 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
302 - automatic IDE geometry detection
285dc330 303 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
0806e3f6 304 - added man page
9c3ad574 305 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
9368caf6 306
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307version 0.4.3:
308
309 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
310 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
311 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
312 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
313
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314version 0.4.2:
315
316 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
317 - IDE emulation support
318 - initial GDB stub support
319 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
9d0fe224 320 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
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321 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
322
d5a0b50c 323version 0.4.1:
3b46e624 324
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325 - more accurate timer support in vl.
326 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
327 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
328 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
329
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330version 0.4:
331
332 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
333 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
334 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
335 - fixed popl (%esp) case
1eb20527 336 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
6c0372d3 337
411bffc4 338version 0.3:
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339
340 - initial support for ARM emulation
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341 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
342 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
322d0c66 343 - initial ARM port
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344 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
345 - generic ioctl number conversion
346 - fixed ioctl type conversion
411bffc4 347
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348version 0.2:
349
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350 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
351 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
352 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
353 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
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354 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
355 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
356 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
86840ae2 357 - added HLT instruction
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358 - LRET instruction fix.
359 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
360 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
361 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
362 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
363 - self-modifying code support
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364 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
365 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
366 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
367 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
368 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
3c51961e 369
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370version 0.1.6:
371
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372 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
373 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
66cd5846 374 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
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375 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
376 translation cache is not flushed)
377 - RH9 fixes
66cd5846 378
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379version 0.1.5:
380
381 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
382 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
383 - removed bfd.h dependancy
384 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
385 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
386
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387version 0.1.4:
388
389 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
390 executables in wine).
391 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
392 - added iret instruction.
27c75a9a 393 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
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395version 0.1.3:
396
397 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
398 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
399 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
400 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
401 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
402 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
403 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
404 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
405 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
406 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
407 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
408 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
409 - poll() fix
5fafdf24 410
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411version 0.1.2:
412
413 - compile fixes
414 - xlat instruction
415 - xchg instruction memory lock
416 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
417 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
418 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
419
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420version 0.1.1:
421
422 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
423 - added -s and -L options
424 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bc8a22cc 425 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
d691f669 426
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427version 0.1:
428
429 - initial public release.