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