Changelog

   1 version 0.5.6:
   2
   3   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
   4   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
   5   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
   6   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
   7   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
   8   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
   9   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  10   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  11   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
  12   - PCI support
  13   - NE2K PCI support
  14   - dummy VGA PCI support
  15   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
  16   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
  17   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
  18   - added '-localtime' option
  19
  20 version 0.5.5:
  21
  22   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  23   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  24   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
  25   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
  26   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
  27   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
  28   - FDC fixes for Win98
  29
  30 version 0.5.4:
  31
  32   - qemu-fast fixes
  33   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  34   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  35   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  36   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  37   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
  38   - User mode network stack
  39   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
  40   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
  41
  42 version 0.5.3:
  43
  44   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
  45   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
  46   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
  47   - CPU interrupt fixes
  48   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
  49   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
  50   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
  51   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
  52   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
  53     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
  54   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
  55   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
  56   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
  57   - graphical x86 linux loader
  58   - command line monitor
  59   - generic removable device support
  60   - support of CD-ROM change
  61   - multiple network interface support
  62   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
  63   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
  64   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
  65   - VM save/restore commands
  66   - new timer API
  67   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
  68   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
  69
  70 version 0.5.2:
  71
  72   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
  73   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
  74     switching tasks
  75   - improved qemu-fast speed
  76   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
  77     softmmu mode).
  78   - fixed IO checking
  79   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
  80   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
  81   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
  82   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
  83   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
  84     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
  85   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
  86   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
  87   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
  88   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
  89   - fixed xadd same reg bug
  90   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
  91   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
  92   - task gate and NT flag fixes
  93   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
  94
  95 version 0.5.1:
  96
  97   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
  98   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
  99   - A20 support
 100   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 101   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 102   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 103   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 104   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 105   - Full task switching/task gate support
 106   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 107   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 108   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 109
 110 version 0.5.0:
 111
 112   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 113   - graphical display with SDL
 114   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 115   - popw (%esp) fix
 116   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 117   - added real mode support
 118   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 119   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 120   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 121   - multi-target build
 122   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 123   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 124   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 125   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 126   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 127   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 128   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 129   - added man page
 130   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 131
 132 version 0.4.3:
 133
 134   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 135   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 136   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 137   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 138
 139 version 0.4.2:
 140
 141  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 142  - IDE emulation support
 143  - initial GDB stub support
 144  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 145  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 146  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 147
 148 version 0.4.1:
 149
 150  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 151  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 152  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 153  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 154
 155 version 0.4:
 156
 157  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 158  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 159  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 160  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 161  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 162
 163 version 0.3:
 164
 165  - initial support for ARM emulation
 166  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 167  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 168  - initial ARM port
 169  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 170  - generic ioctl number conversion
 171  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 172
 173 version 0.2:
 174
 175  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 176  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 177  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 178  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 179  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 180  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 181  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 182  - added HLT instruction
 183  - LRET instruction fix.
 184  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 185  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 186  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 187  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 188  - self-modifying code support
 189  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 190  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 191  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 192  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 193  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 194
 195 version 0.1.6:
 196
 197  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 198    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 199  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 200  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 201    translation cache is not flushed)
 202  - RH9 fixes
 203
 204 version 0.1.5:
 205
 206  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 207  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 208  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 209  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 210  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 211
 212 version 0.1.4:
 213
 214  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 215    executables in wine).
 216  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 217  - added iret instruction.
 218  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 219
 220 version 0.1.3:
 221
 222  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 223  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 224  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 225  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 226  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 227  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 228  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 229  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 230  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 231  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 232  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 233  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 234  - poll() fix
 235
 236 version 0.1.2:
 237
 238  - compile fixes
 239  - xlat instruction
 240  - xchg instruction memory lock
 241  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 242    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 243    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 244
 245 version 0.1.1:
 246
 247  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 248  - added -s and -L options
 249  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 250  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 251
 252 version 0.1:
 253
 254  - initial public release.