Changelog

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