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