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1 | version 0.6.2: | |
2 | ||
3 | - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection | |
4 | - user mode networking bug fix | |
5 | - undocumented FPU ops support | |
6 | - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes | |
7 | - 'pidfile' option | |
8 | - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
9 | - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) | |
10 | - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) | |
11 | ||
12 | version 0.6.1: | |
13 | ||
14 | - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
15 | - Virtual console support | |
16 | - Better monitor line edition | |
17 | - New block device layer | |
18 | - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and | |
19 | transparent decompression | |
20 | - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) | |
21 | - Support for up to 4 serial ports | |
22 | - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) | |
23 | - Port redirection support in user mode networking | |
24 | - Support for not executable data sections | |
25 | - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
26 | - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve | |
27 | Wormley) | |
28 | - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any | |
29 | LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) | |
30 | - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) | |
31 | - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) | |
32 | - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. | |
33 | - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options | |
34 | - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
35 | - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to | |
36 | the virtual consoles. | |
37 | - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) | |
38 | - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) | |
39 | - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) | |
40 | - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) | |
41 | - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) | |
42 | - VGA font change fix | |
43 | - VGA read-only CRTC register fix | |
44 | ||
45 | version 0.6.0: | |
46 | ||
47 | - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) | |
48 | - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) | |
49 | - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) | |
50 | - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) | |
51 | - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) | |
52 | - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) | |
53 | - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) | |
54 | - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix | |
55 | - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images | |
56 | - PCI support | |
57 | - NE2K PCI support | |
58 | - dummy VGA PCI support | |
59 | - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) | |
60 | - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) | |
61 | - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) | |
62 | - added '-localtime' option | |
63 | - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) | |
64 | - APM and system shutdown support | |
65 | - Fixed system reset | |
66 | - Support for other PC BIOSes | |
67 | - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation | |
68 | - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
69 | - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) | |
70 | - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB | |
71 | ||
72 | version 0.5.5: | |
73 | ||
74 | - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) | |
75 | - VGA support on PowerPC PREP | |
76 | - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) | |
77 | - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) | |
78 | - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) | |
79 | - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) | |
80 | - FDC fixes for Win98 | |
81 | ||
82 | version 0.5.4: | |
83 | ||
84 | - qemu-fast fixes | |
85 | - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
86 | - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell) | |
87 | - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) | |
88 | - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
89 | - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
90 | - User mode network stack | |
91 | - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) | |
92 | - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug) | |
93 | ||
94 | version 0.5.3: | |
95 | ||
96 | - added Bochs VESA VBE support | |
97 | - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) | |
98 | - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) | |
99 | - CPU interrupt fixes | |
100 | - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) | |
101 | - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) | |
102 | - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) | |
103 | - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) | |
104 | - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance | |
105 | in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) | |
106 | - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) | |
107 | - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation | |
108 | - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) | |
109 | - graphical x86 linux loader | |
110 | - command line monitor | |
111 | - generic removable device support | |
112 | - support of CD-ROM change | |
113 | - multiple network interface support | |
114 | - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne) | |
115 | - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix) | |
116 | - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) | |
117 | - VM save/restore commands | |
118 | - new timer API | |
119 | - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) | |
120 | - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu) | |
121 | ||
122 | version 0.5.2: | |
123 | ||
124 | - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) | |
125 | - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when | |
126 | switching tasks | |
127 | - improved qemu-fast speed | |
128 | - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in | |
129 | softmmu mode). | |
130 | - fixed IO checking | |
131 | - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) | |
132 | - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) | |
133 | - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) | |
134 | - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception | |
135 | - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically | |
136 | when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. | |
137 | - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
138 | - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
139 | - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
140 | - fixed PTE dirty bit handling | |
141 | - fixed xadd same reg bug | |
142 | - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness | |
143 | - access to virtual memory in gdb stub | |
144 | - task gate and NT flag fixes | |
145 | - eflags optimisation fix for string operations | |
146 | ||
147 | version 0.5.1: | |
148 | ||
149 | - float access fixes when using soft mmu | |
150 | - PC emulation support on PowerPC | |
151 | - A20 support | |
152 | - IDE CD-ROM emulation | |
153 | - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) | |
154 | - SB16 emulation (malc) | |
155 | - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 | |
156 | - Port I/Os use TSS io map | |
157 | - Full task switching/task gate support | |
158 | - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx | |
159 | - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
160 | - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) | |
161 | ||
162 | version 0.5.0: | |
163 | ||
164 | - full hardware level VGA emulation | |
165 | - graphical display with SDL | |
166 | - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation | |
167 | - popw (%esp) fix | |
168 | - mov to/from segment data width fix | |
169 | - added real mode support | |
170 | - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu | |
171 | - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) | |
172 | - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os | |
173 | - multi-target build | |
174 | - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts | |
175 | - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn | |
176 | - correct single stepping thru string operations | |
177 | - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) | |
178 | - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) | |
179 | - automatic IDE geometry detection | |
180 | - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. | |
181 | - added man page | |
182 | - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. | |
183 | ||
184 | version 0.4.3: | |
185 | ||
186 | - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. | |
187 | - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) | |
188 | - sparc and Alpha host fixes | |
189 | - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. | |
190 | ||
191 | version 0.4.2: | |
192 | ||
193 | - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) | |
194 | - IDE emulation support | |
195 | - initial GDB stub support | |
196 | - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) | |
197 | - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images | |
198 | - SMP kernels can at least be booted | |
199 | ||
200 | version 0.4.1: | |
201 | ||
202 | - more accurate timer support in vl. | |
203 | - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. | |
204 | - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. | |
205 | - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. | |
206 | ||
207 | version 0.4: | |
208 | ||
209 | - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation | |
210 | - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation | |
211 | - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() | |
212 | - fixed popl (%esp) case | |
213 | - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. | |
214 | ||
215 | version 0.3: | |
216 | ||
217 | - initial support for ARM emulation | |
218 | - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions | |
219 | - added FPU register save in signal emulation | |
220 | - initial ARM port | |
221 | - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test | |
222 | - generic ioctl number conversion | |
223 | - fixed ioctl type conversion | |
224 | ||
225 | version 0.2: | |
226 | ||
227 | - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) | |
228 | - flock support (Rusty Russell) | |
229 | - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) | |
230 | - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) | |
231 | - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) | |
232 | - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) | |
233 | - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) | |
234 | - added HLT instruction | |
235 | - LRET instruction fix. | |
236 | - added GPF generation for I/Os. | |
237 | - added INT3 and TF flag support. | |
238 | - SHL instruction C flag fix. | |
239 | - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB | |
240 | - self-modifying code support | |
241 | - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) | |
242 | - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) | |
243 | - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation | |
244 | - faster segment load in vm86 mode | |
245 | - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) | |
246 | ||
247 | version 0.1.6: | |
248 | ||
249 | - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched | |
250 | ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). | |
251 | - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) | |
252 | - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the | |
253 | translation cache is not flushed) | |
254 | - RH9 fixes | |
255 | ||
256 | version 0.1.5: | |
257 | ||
258 | - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) | |
259 | - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) | |
260 | - removed bfd.h dependancy | |
261 | - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. | |
262 | - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). | |
263 | ||
264 | version 0.1.4: | |
265 | ||
266 | - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit | |
267 | executables in wine). | |
268 | - fixed push/pop fs/gs | |
269 | - added iret instruction. | |
270 | - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. | |
271 | ||
272 | version 0.1.3: | |
273 | ||
274 | - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
275 | - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
276 | - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
277 | - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
278 | - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
279 | - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
280 | - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
281 | - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
282 | - more accurate pushf/popf emulation | |
283 | - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). | |
284 | - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions | |
285 | - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations | |
286 | - poll() fix | |
287 | ||
288 | version 0.1.2: | |
289 | ||
290 | - compile fixes | |
291 | - xlat instruction | |
292 | - xchg instruction memory lock | |
293 | - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte | |
294 | DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram | |
295 | Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). | |
296 | ||
297 | version 0.1.1: | |
298 | ||
299 | - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes | |
300 | - added -s and -L options | |
301 | - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine | |
302 | - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. | |
303 | ||
304 | version 0.1: | |
305 | ||
306 | - initial public release. |