Changelog

   1 version 0.6.0:
   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   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
  20   - APM and system shutdown support
  21   - Fixed system reset
  22   - Support for other PC BIOSes
  23   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
  24   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
  25   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
  26   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
  27
  28 version 0.5.5:
  29
  30   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  31   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  32   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
  33   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
  34   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
  35   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
  36   - FDC fixes for Win98
  37
  38 version 0.5.4:
  39
  40   - qemu-fast fixes
  41   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  42   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  43   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  44   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  45   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
  46   - User mode network stack
  47   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
  48   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
  49
  50 version 0.5.3:
  51
  52   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
  53   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
  54   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
  55   - CPU interrupt fixes
  56   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
  57   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
  58   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
  59   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
  60   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
  61     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
  62   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
  63   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
  64   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
  65   - graphical x86 linux loader
  66   - command line monitor
  67   - generic removable device support
  68   - support of CD-ROM change
  69   - multiple network interface support
  70   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
  71   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
  72   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
  73   - VM save/restore commands
  74   - new timer API
  75   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
  76   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
  77
  78 version 0.5.2:
  79
  80   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
  81   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
  82     switching tasks
  83   - improved qemu-fast speed
  84   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
  85     softmmu mode).
  86   - fixed IO checking
  87   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
  88   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
  89   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
  90   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
  91   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
  92     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
  93   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
  94   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
  95   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
  96   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
  97   - fixed xadd same reg bug
  98   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
  99   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 100   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 101   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 102
 103 version 0.5.1:
 104
 105   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 106   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 107   - A20 support
 108   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 109   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 110   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 111   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 112   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 113   - Full task switching/task gate support
 114   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 115   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 116   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 117
 118 version 0.5.0:
 119
 120   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 121   - graphical display with SDL
 122   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 123   - popw (%esp) fix
 124   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 125   - added real mode support
 126   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 127   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 128   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 129   - multi-target build
 130   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 131   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 132   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 133   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 134   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 135   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 136   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 137   - added man page
 138   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 139
 140 version 0.4.3:
 141
 142   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 143   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 144   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 145   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 146
 147 version 0.4.2:
 148
 149  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 150  - IDE emulation support
 151  - initial GDB stub support
 152  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 153  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 154  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 155
 156 version 0.4.1:
 157
 158  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 159  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 160  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 161  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 162
 163 version 0.4:
 164
 165  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 166  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 167  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 168  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 169  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 170
 171 version 0.3:
 172
 173  - initial support for ARM emulation
 174  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 175  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 176  - initial ARM port
 177  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 178  - generic ioctl number conversion
 179  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 180
 181 version 0.2:
 182
 183  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 184  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 185  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 186  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 187  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 188  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 189  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 190  - added HLT instruction
 191  - LRET instruction fix.
 192  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 193  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 194  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 195  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 196  - self-modifying code support
 197  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 198  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 199  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 200  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 201  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 202
 203 version 0.1.6:
 204
 205  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 206    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 207  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 208  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 209    translation cache is not flushed)
 210  - RH9 fixes
 211
 212 version 0.1.5:
 213
 214  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 215  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 216  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 217  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 218  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 219
 220 version 0.1.4:
 221
 222  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 223    executables in wine).
 224  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 225  - added iret instruction.
 226  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 227
 228 version 0.1.3:
 229
 230  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 231  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 232  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 233  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 234  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 235  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 236  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 237  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 238  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 239  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 240  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 241  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 242  - poll() fix
 243
 244 version 0.1.2:
 245
 246  - compile fixes
 247  - xlat instruction
 248  - xchg instruction memory lock
 249  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 250    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 251    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 252
 253 version 0.1.1:
 254
 255  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 256  - added -s and -L options
 257  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 258  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 259
 260 version 0.1:
 261
 262  - initial public release.