Changelog

   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   - added generic 64 bit target support
  12   - initial x86_64 target support
  13   - initial APIC support
  14   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  15   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  16   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  17   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  18   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  19   - Samba 3 support
  20   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  21
  22 version 0.6.1:
  23
  24   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  25   - Virtual console support
  26   - Better monitor line edition
  27   - New block device layer
  28   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  29     transparent decompression
  30   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  31   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  32   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  33   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  34   - Support for not executable data sections
  35   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  36   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  37     Wormley)
  38   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  39     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  40   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  41   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  42   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  43   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  44   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  45   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  46     the virtual consoles.
  47   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  48   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  49   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  50   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  51   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  52   - VGA font change fix
  53   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  54
  55 version 0.6.0:
  56
  57   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  58   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  59   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  60   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  61   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  62   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  63   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  64   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  65   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
  66   - PCI support
  67   - NE2K PCI support
  68   - dummy VGA PCI support
  69   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
  70   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
  71   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
  72   - added '-localtime' option
  73   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
  74   - APM and system shutdown support
  75   - Fixed system reset
  76   - Support for other PC BIOSes
  77   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
  78   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
  79   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
  80   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
  81
  82 version 0.5.5:
  83
  84   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  85   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  86   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
  87   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
  88   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
  89   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
  90   - FDC fixes for Win98
  91
  92 version 0.5.4:
  93
  94   - qemu-fast fixes
  95   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  96   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  97   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  98   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  99   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 100   - User mode network stack
 101   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 102   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 103
 104 version 0.5.3:
 105
 106   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 107   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 108   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 109   - CPU interrupt fixes
 110   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 111   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 112   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 113   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 114   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 115     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 116   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 117   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 118   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 119   - graphical x86 linux loader
 120   - command line monitor
 121   - generic removable device support
 122   - support of CD-ROM change
 123   - multiple network interface support
 124   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 125   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 126   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 127   - VM save/restore commands
 128   - new timer API
 129   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 130   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 131
 132 version 0.5.2:
 133
 134   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 135   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 136     switching tasks
 137   - improved qemu-fast speed
 138   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 139     softmmu mode).
 140   - fixed IO checking
 141   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 142   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 143   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 144   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 145   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 146     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 147   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 148   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 149   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 150   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 151   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 152   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 153   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 154   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 155   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 156
 157 version 0.5.1:
 158
 159   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 160   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 161   - A20 support
 162   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 163   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 164   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 165   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 166   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 167   - Full task switching/task gate support
 168   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 169   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 170   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 171
 172 version 0.5.0:
 173
 174   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 175   - graphical display with SDL
 176   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 177   - popw (%esp) fix
 178   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 179   - added real mode support
 180   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 181   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 182   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 183   - multi-target build
 184   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 185   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 186   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 187   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 188   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 189   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 190   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 191   - added man page
 192   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 193
 194 version 0.4.3:
 195
 196   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 197   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 198   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 199   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 200
 201 version 0.4.2:
 202
 203  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 204  - IDE emulation support
 205  - initial GDB stub support
 206  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 207  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 208  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 209
 210 version 0.4.1:
 211
 212  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 213  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 214  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 215  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 216
 217 version 0.4:
 218
 219  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 220  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 221  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 222  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 223  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 224
 225 version 0.3:
 226
 227  - initial support for ARM emulation
 228  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 229  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 230  - initial ARM port
 231  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 232  - generic ioctl number conversion
 233  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 234
 235 version 0.2:
 236
 237  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 238  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 239  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 240  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 241  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 242  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 243  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 244  - added HLT instruction
 245  - LRET instruction fix.
 246  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 247  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 248  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 249  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 250  - self-modifying code support
 251  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 252  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 253  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 254  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 255  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 256
 257 version 0.1.6:
 258
 259  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 260    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 261  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 262  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 263    translation cache is not flushed)
 264  - RH9 fixes
 265
 266 version 0.1.5:
 267
 268  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 269  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 270  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 271  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 272  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 273
 274 version 0.1.4:
 275
 276  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 277    executables in wine).
 278  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 279  - added iret instruction.
 280  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 281
 282 version 0.1.3:
 283
 284  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 285  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 286  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 287  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 288  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 289  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 290  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 291  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 292  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 293  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 294  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 295  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 296  - poll() fix
 297
 298 version 0.1.2:
 299
 300  - compile fixes
 301  - xlat instruction
 302  - xchg instruction memory lock
 303  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 304    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 305    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 306
 307 version 0.1.1:
 308
 309  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 310  - added -s and -L options
 311  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 312  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 313
 314 version 0.1:
 315
 316  - initial public release.