Changelog

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