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   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  17   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  18   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  19
  20 version 0.6.1:
  21
  22   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  23   - Virtual console support
  24   - Better monitor line edition
  25   - New block device layer
  26   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  27     transparent decompression
  28   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  29   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  30   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  31   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  32   - Support for not executable data sections
  33   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  34   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  35     Wormley)
  36   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  37     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  38   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  39   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  40   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  41   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  42   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  43   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  44     the virtual consoles.
  45   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  46   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  47   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  48   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  49   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  50   - VGA font change fix
  51   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  52
  53 version 0.6.0:
  54
  55   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  56   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  57   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  58   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  59   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  60   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  61   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  62   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  63   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
  64   - PCI support
  65   - NE2K PCI support
  66   - dummy VGA PCI support
  67   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
  68   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
  69   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
  70   - added '-localtime' option
  71   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
  72   - APM and system shutdown support
  73   - Fixed system reset
  74   - Support for other PC BIOSes
  75   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
  76   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
  77   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
  78   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
  79
  80 version 0.5.5:
  81
  82   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  83   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  84   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
  85   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
  86   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
  87   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
  88   - FDC fixes for Win98
  89
  90 version 0.5.4:
  91
  92   - qemu-fast fixes
  93   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  94   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  95   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  96   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  97   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
  98   - User mode network stack
  99   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 100   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 101
 102 version 0.5.3:
 103
 104   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 105   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 106   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 107   - CPU interrupt fixes
 108   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 109   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 110   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 111   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 112   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 113     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 114   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 115   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 116   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 117   - graphical x86 linux loader
 118   - command line monitor
 119   - generic removable device support
 120   - support of CD-ROM change
 121   - multiple network interface support
 122   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 123   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 124   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 125   - VM save/restore commands
 126   - new timer API
 127   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 128   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 129
 130 version 0.5.2:
 131
 132   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 133   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 134     switching tasks
 135   - improved qemu-fast speed
 136   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 137     softmmu mode).
 138   - fixed IO checking
 139   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 140   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 141   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 142   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 143   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 144     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 145   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 146   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 147   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 148   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 149   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 150   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 151   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 152   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 153   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 154
 155 version 0.5.1:
 156
 157   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 158   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 159   - A20 support
 160   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 161   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 162   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 163   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 164   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 165   - Full task switching/task gate support
 166   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 167   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 168   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 169
 170 version 0.5.0:
 171
 172   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 173   - graphical display with SDL
 174   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 175   - popw (%esp) fix
 176   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 177   - added real mode support
 178   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 179   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 180   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 181   - multi-target build
 182   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 183   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 184   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 185   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 186   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 187   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 188   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 189   - added man page
 190   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 191
 192 version 0.4.3:
 193
 194   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 195   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 196   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 197   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 198
 199 version 0.4.2:
 200
 201  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 202  - IDE emulation support
 203  - initial GDB stub support
 204  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 205  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 206  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 207
 208 version 0.4.1:
 209
 210  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 211  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 212  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 213  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 214
 215 version 0.4:
 216
 217  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 218  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 219  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 220  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 221  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 222
 223 version 0.3:
 224
 225  - initial support for ARM emulation
 226  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 227  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 228  - initial ARM port
 229  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 230  - generic ioctl number conversion
 231  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 232
 233 version 0.2:
 234
 235  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 236  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 237  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 238  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 239  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 240  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 241  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 242  - added HLT instruction
 243  - LRET instruction fix.
 244  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 245  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 246  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 247  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 248  - self-modifying code support
 249  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 250  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 251  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 252  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 253  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 254
 255 version 0.1.6:
 256
 257  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 258    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 259  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 260  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 261    translation cache is not flushed)
 262  - RH9 fixes
 263
 264 version 0.1.5:
 265
 266  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 267  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 268  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 269  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 270  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 271
 272 version 0.1.4:
 273
 274  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 275    executables in wine).
 276  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 277  - added iret instruction.
 278  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 279
 280 version 0.1.3:
 281
 282  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 283  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 284  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 285  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 286  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 287  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 288  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 289  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 290  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 291  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 292  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 293  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 294  - poll() fix
 295
 296 version 0.1.2:
 297
 298  - compile fixes
 299  - xlat instruction
 300  - xchg instruction memory lock
 301  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 302    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 303    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 304
 305 version 0.1.1:
 306
 307  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 308  - added -s and -L options
 309  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 310  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 311
 312 version 0.1:
 313
 314  - initial public release.