Changelog

   1 version 0.7.3:
   2
   3   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
   4   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
   5   - DirectSound driver (malc)
   6   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
   7   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
   8   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
   9   - Initial USB support
  10
  11 version 0.7.2:
  12
  13   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  14   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  15   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  16   - better user net performances
  17
  18 version 0.7.1:
  19
  20   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  21   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  22     N. Oleynik)
  23   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  24   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  25   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  26   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  27   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  28   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  29
  30 version 0.7.0:
  31
  32   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  33   - user mode networking bug fix
  34   - undocumented FPU ops support
  35   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  36   - 'pidfile' option
  37   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  38   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  39   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  40   - added generic 64 bit target support
  41   - x86_64 target support
  42   - initial APIC support
  43   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  44   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  45   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  46   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  47   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  48   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  49   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  50   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  51   - Samba 3 support
  52   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  53   - generic FPU emulation code
  54   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  55
  56 version 0.6.1:
  57
  58   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  59   - Virtual console support
  60   - Better monitor line edition
  61   - New block device layer
  62   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  63     transparent decompression
  64   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  65   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  66   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  67   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  68   - Support for not executable data sections
  69   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  70   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  71     Wormley)
  72   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  73     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  74   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  75   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  76   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  77   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  78   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  79   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  80     the virtual consoles.
  81   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  82   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  83   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  84   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  85   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  86   - VGA font change fix
  87   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  88
  89 version 0.6.0:
  90
  91   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  92   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  93   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  94   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  95   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  96   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  97   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  98   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  99   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 100   - PCI support
 101   - NE2K PCI support
 102   - dummy VGA PCI support
 103   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 104   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 105   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 106   - added '-localtime' option
 107   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 108   - APM and system shutdown support
 109   - Fixed system reset
 110   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 111   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 112   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 113   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 114   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 115
 116 version 0.5.5:
 117
 118   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 119   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 120   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 121   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 122   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 123   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 124   - FDC fixes for Win98
 125
 126 version 0.5.4:
 127
 128   - qemu-fast fixes
 129   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 130   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 131   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 132   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 133   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 134   - User mode network stack
 135   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 136   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 137
 138 version 0.5.3:
 139
 140   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 141   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 142   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 143   - CPU interrupt fixes
 144   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 145   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 146   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 147   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 148   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 149     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 150   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 151   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 152   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 153   - graphical x86 linux loader
 154   - command line monitor
 155   - generic removable device support
 156   - support of CD-ROM change
 157   - multiple network interface support
 158   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 159   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 160   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 161   - VM save/restore commands
 162   - new timer API
 163   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 164   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 165
 166 version 0.5.2:
 167
 168   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 169   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 170     switching tasks
 171   - improved qemu-fast speed
 172   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 173     softmmu mode).
 174   - fixed IO checking
 175   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 176   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 177   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 178   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 179   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 180     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 181   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 182   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 183   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 184   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 185   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 186   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 187   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 188   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 189   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 190
 191 version 0.5.1:
 192
 193   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 194   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 195   - A20 support
 196   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 197   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 198   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 199   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 200   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 201   - Full task switching/task gate support
 202   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 203   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 204   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 205
 206 version 0.5.0:
 207
 208   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 209   - graphical display with SDL
 210   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 211   - popw (%esp) fix
 212   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 213   - added real mode support
 214   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 215   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 216   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 217   - multi-target build
 218   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 219   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 220   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 221   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 222   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 223   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 224   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 225   - added man page
 226   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 227
 228 version 0.4.3:
 229
 230   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 231   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 232   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 233   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 234
 235 version 0.4.2:
 236
 237  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 238  - IDE emulation support
 239  - initial GDB stub support
 240  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 241  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 242  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 243
 244 version 0.4.1:
 245
 246  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 247  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 248  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 249  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 250
 251 version 0.4:
 252
 253  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 254  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 255  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 256  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 257  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 258
 259 version 0.3:
 260
 261  - initial support for ARM emulation
 262  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 263  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 264  - initial ARM port
 265  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 266  - generic ioctl number conversion
 267  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 268
 269 version 0.2:
 270
 271  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 272  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 273  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 274  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 275  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 276  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 277  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 278  - added HLT instruction
 279  - LRET instruction fix.
 280  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 281  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 282  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 283  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 284  - self-modifying code support
 285  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 286  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 287  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 288  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 289  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 290
 291 version 0.1.6:
 292
 293  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 294    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 295  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 296  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 297    translation cache is not flushed)
 298  - RH9 fixes
 299
 300 version 0.1.5:
 301
 302  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 303  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 304  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 305  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 306  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 307
 308 version 0.1.4:
 309
 310  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 311    executables in wine).
 312  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 313  - added iret instruction.
 314  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 315
 316 version 0.1.3:
 317
 318  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 319  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 320  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 321  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 322  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 323  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 324  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 325  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 326  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 327  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 328  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 329  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 330  - poll() fix
 331
 332 version 0.1.2:
 333
 334  - compile fixes
 335  - xlat instruction
 336  - xchg instruction memory lock
 337  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 338    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 339    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 340
 341 version 0.1.1:
 342
 343  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 344  - added -s and -L options
 345  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 346  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 347
 348 version 0.1:
 349
 350  - initial public release.