Changelog

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