Changelog

   1 version 0.7.3:
   2
   3   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
   4     cpu (Paul Brook)
   5   - SMP support
   6   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
   7   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
   8   - DirectSound driver (malc)
   9   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  10   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  11   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  12   - Initial USB support
  13   - Linux host serial port access
  14   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  15   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  16   - MIPS User Linux emulation
  17
  18 version 0.7.2:
  19
  20   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  21   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  22   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  23   - better user net performances
  24
  25 version 0.7.1:
  26
  27   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  28   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  29     N. Oleynik)
  30   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  31   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  32   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  33   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  34   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  35   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  36
  37 version 0.7.0:
  38
  39   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  40   - user mode networking bug fix
  41   - undocumented FPU ops support
  42   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  43   - 'pidfile' option
  44   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  45   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  46   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  47   - added generic 64 bit target support
  48   - x86_64 target support
  49   - initial APIC support
  50   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  51   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  52   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  53   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  54   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  55   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  56   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  57   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  58   - Samba 3 support
  59   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  60   - generic FPU emulation code
  61   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  62
  63 version 0.6.1:
  64
  65   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  66   - Virtual console support
  67   - Better monitor line edition
  68   - New block device layer
  69   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  70     transparent decompression
  71   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  72   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  73   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  74   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  75   - Support for not executable data sections
  76   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  77   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  78     Wormley)
  79   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  80     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  81   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  82   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  83   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  84   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  85   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  86   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  87     the virtual consoles.
  88   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  89   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  90   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  91   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  92   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  93   - VGA font change fix
  94   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  95
  96 version 0.6.0:
  97
  98   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  99   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 100   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 101   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 102   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 103   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 104   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 105   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 106   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 107   - PCI support
 108   - NE2K PCI support
 109   - dummy VGA PCI support
 110   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 111   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 112   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 113   - added '-localtime' option
 114   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 115   - APM and system shutdown support
 116   - Fixed system reset
 117   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 118   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 119   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 120   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 121   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 122
 123 version 0.5.5:
 124
 125   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 126   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 127   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 128   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 129   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 130   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 131   - FDC fixes for Win98
 132
 133 version 0.5.4:
 134
 135   - qemu-fast fixes
 136   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 137   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 138   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 139   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 140   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 141   - User mode network stack
 142   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 143   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 144
 145 version 0.5.3:
 146
 147   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 148   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 149   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 150   - CPU interrupt fixes
 151   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 152   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 153   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 154   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 155   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 156     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 157   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 158   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 159   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 160   - graphical x86 linux loader
 161   - command line monitor
 162   - generic removable device support
 163   - support of CD-ROM change
 164   - multiple network interface support
 165   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 166   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 167   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 168   - VM save/restore commands
 169   - new timer API
 170   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 171   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 172
 173 version 0.5.2:
 174
 175   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 176   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 177     switching tasks
 178   - improved qemu-fast speed
 179   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 180     softmmu mode).
 181   - fixed IO checking
 182   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 183   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 184   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 185   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 186   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 187     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 188   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 189   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 190   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 191   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 192   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 193   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 194   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 195   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 196   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 197
 198 version 0.5.1:
 199
 200   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 201   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 202   - A20 support
 203   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 204   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 205   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 206   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 207   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 208   - Full task switching/task gate support
 209   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 210   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 211   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 212
 213 version 0.5.0:
 214
 215   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 216   - graphical display with SDL
 217   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 218   - popw (%esp) fix
 219   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 220   - added real mode support
 221   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 222   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 223   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 224   - multi-target build
 225   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 226   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 227   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 228   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 229   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 230   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 231   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 232   - added man page
 233   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 234
 235 version 0.4.3:
 236
 237   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 238   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 239   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 240   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 241
 242 version 0.4.2:
 243
 244  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 245  - IDE emulation support
 246  - initial GDB stub support
 247  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 248  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 249  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 250
 251 version 0.4.1:
 252
 253  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 254  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 255  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 256  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 257
 258 version 0.4:
 259
 260  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 261  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 262  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 263  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 264  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 265
 266 version 0.3:
 267
 268  - initial support for ARM emulation
 269  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 270  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 271  - initial ARM port
 272  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 273  - generic ioctl number conversion
 274  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 275
 276 version 0.2:
 277
 278  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 279  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 280  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 281  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 282  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 283  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 284  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 285  - added HLT instruction
 286  - LRET instruction fix.
 287  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 288  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 289  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 290  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 291  - self-modifying code support
 292  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 293  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 294  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 295  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 296  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 297
 298 version 0.1.6:
 299
 300  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 301    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 302  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 303  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 304    translation cache is not flushed)
 305  - RH9 fixes
 306
 307 version 0.1.5:
 308
 309  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 310  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 311  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 312  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 313  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 314
 315 version 0.1.4:
 316
 317  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 318    executables in wine).
 319  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 320  - added iret instruction.
 321  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 322
 323 version 0.1.3:
 324
 325  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 326  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 327  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 328  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 329  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 330  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 331  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 332  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 333  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 334  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 335  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 336  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 337  - poll() fix
 338
 339 version 0.1.2:
 340
 341  - compile fixes
 342  - xlat instruction
 343  - xchg instruction memory lock
 344  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 345    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 346    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 347
 348 version 0.1.1:
 349
 350  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 351  - added -s and -L options
 352  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 353  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 354
 355 version 0.1:
 356
 357  - initial public release.