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1 | version 0.5.2: | |
2 | - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) | |
3 | - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when | |
4 | switching tasks | |
5 | - improved qemu-fast speed | |
6 | - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in | |
7 | softmmu mode). | |
8 | - fixed IO checking | |
9 | - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) | |
10 | - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) | |
11 | - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) | |
12 | - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception | |
13 | - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically | |
14 | when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. | |
15 | ||
16 | version 0.5.1: | |
17 | ||
18 | - float access fixes when using soft mmu | |
19 | - PC emulation support on PowerPC | |
20 | - A20 support | |
21 | - IDE CD-ROM emulation | |
22 | - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) | |
23 | - SB16 emulation (malc) | |
24 | - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 | |
25 | - Port I/Os use TSS io map | |
26 | - Full task switching/task gate support | |
27 | - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx | |
28 | - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
29 | - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) | |
30 | ||
31 | version 0.5.0: | |
32 | ||
33 | - full hardware level VGA emulation | |
34 | - graphical display with SDL | |
35 | - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation | |
36 | - popw (%esp) fix | |
37 | - mov to/from segment data width fix | |
38 | - added real mode support | |
39 | - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu | |
40 | - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) | |
41 | - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os | |
42 | - multi-target build | |
43 | - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts | |
44 | - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn | |
45 | - correct single stepping thru string operations | |
46 | - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) | |
47 | - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) | |
48 | - automatic IDE geometry detection | |
49 | - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. | |
50 | - added man page | |
51 | - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. | |
52 | ||
53 | version 0.4.3: | |
54 | ||
55 | - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. | |
56 | - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) | |
57 | - sparc and Alpha host fixes | |
58 | - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. | |
59 | ||
60 | version 0.4.2: | |
61 | ||
62 | - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) | |
63 | - IDE emulation support | |
64 | - initial GDB stub support | |
65 | - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) | |
66 | - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images | |
67 | - SMP kernels can at least be booted | |
68 | ||
69 | version 0.4.1: | |
70 | ||
71 | - more accurate timer support in vl. | |
72 | - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. | |
73 | - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. | |
74 | - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. | |
75 | ||
76 | version 0.4: | |
77 | ||
78 | - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation | |
79 | - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation | |
80 | - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() | |
81 | - fixed popl (%esp) case | |
82 | - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. | |
83 | ||
84 | version 0.3: | |
85 | ||
86 | - initial support for ARM emulation | |
87 | - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions | |
88 | - added FPU register save in signal emulation | |
89 | - initial ARM port | |
90 | - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test | |
91 | - generic ioctl number conversion | |
92 | - fixed ioctl type conversion | |
93 | ||
94 | version 0.2: | |
95 | ||
96 | - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) | |
97 | - flock support (Rusty Russell) | |
98 | - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) | |
99 | - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) | |
100 | - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) | |
101 | - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) | |
102 | - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) | |
103 | - added HLT instruction | |
104 | - LRET instruction fix. | |
105 | - added GPF generation for I/Os. | |
106 | - added INT3 and TF flag support. | |
107 | - SHL instruction C flag fix. | |
108 | - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB | |
109 | - self-modifying code support | |
110 | - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) | |
111 | - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) | |
112 | - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation | |
113 | - faster segment load in vm86 mode | |
114 | - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) | |
115 | ||
116 | version 0.1.6: | |
117 | ||
118 | - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched | |
119 | ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). | |
120 | - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) | |
121 | - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the | |
122 | translation cache is not flushed) | |
123 | - RH9 fixes | |
124 | ||
125 | version 0.1.5: | |
126 | ||
127 | - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) | |
128 | - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) | |
129 | - removed bfd.h dependancy | |
130 | - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. | |
131 | - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). | |
132 | ||
133 | version 0.1.4: | |
134 | ||
135 | - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit | |
136 | executables in wine). | |
137 | - fixed push/pop fs/gs | |
138 | - added iret instruction. | |
139 | - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. | |
140 | ||
141 | version 0.1.3: | |
142 | ||
143 | - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
144 | - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
145 | - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
146 | - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
147 | - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
148 | - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
149 | - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
150 | - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
151 | - more accurate pushf/popf emulation | |
152 | - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). | |
153 | - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions | |
154 | - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations | |
155 | - poll() fix | |
156 | ||
157 | version 0.1.2: | |
158 | ||
159 | - compile fixes | |
160 | - xlat instruction | |
161 | - xchg instruction memory lock | |
162 | - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte | |
163 | DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram | |
164 | Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). | |
165 | ||
166 | version 0.1.1: | |
167 | ||
168 | - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes | |
169 | - added -s and -L options | |
170 | - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine | |
171 | - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. | |
172 | ||
173 | version 0.1: | |
174 | ||
175 | - initial public release. |