Changelog

   1 version 0.8.2:
   2
   3   - ACPI support
   4   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
   5   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
   6   - VNC server fixes
   7   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
   8   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)
   9   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  10   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  11   - UDP character devices (Jason Wessel)
  12   - TCP character devices
  13
  14 version 0.8.1:
  15
  16   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  17   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  18   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  19   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  20   - SSE3 support
  21   - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
  22   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  23   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  24   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  25   - USB fixes
  26   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  27
  28 version 0.8.0:
  29
  30   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  31     cpu (Paul Brook)
  32   - SMP support
  33   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  34   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  35   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  36   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  37   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  38   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  39   - Initial USB support
  40   - Linux host serial port access
  41   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  42   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  43   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  44   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  45   - NX bit support
  46   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  47   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  48     (Johannes Schindelin)
  49
  50 version 0.7.2:
  51
  52   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  53   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  54   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  55   - better user net performances
  56
  57 version 0.7.1:
  58
  59   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  60   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  61     N. Oleynik)
  62   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  63   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  64   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  65   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  66   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  67   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  68
  69 version 0.7.0:
  70
  71   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  72   - user mode networking bug fix
  73   - undocumented FPU ops support
  74   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  75   - 'pidfile' option
  76   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  77   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  78   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  79   - added generic 64 bit target support
  80   - x86_64 target support
  81   - initial APIC support
  82   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  83   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  84   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  85   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  86   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  87   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  88   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  89   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  90   - Samba 3 support
  91   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  92   - generic FPU emulation code
  93   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  94
  95 version 0.6.1:
  96
  97   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  98   - Virtual console support
  99   - Better monitor line edition
 100   - New block device layer
 101   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 102     transparent decompression
 103   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 104   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 105   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 106   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 107   - Support for not executable data sections
 108   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 109   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 110     Wormley)
 111   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 112     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 113   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 114   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 115   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 116   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 117   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 118   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 119     the virtual consoles.
 120   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 121   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 122   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 123   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 124   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 125   - VGA font change fix
 126   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 127
 128 version 0.6.0:
 129
 130   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 131   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 132   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 133   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 134   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 135   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 136   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 137   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 138   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 139   - PCI support
 140   - NE2K PCI support
 141   - dummy VGA PCI support
 142   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 143   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 144   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 145   - added '-localtime' option
 146   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 147   - APM and system shutdown support
 148   - Fixed system reset
 149   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 150   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 151   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 152   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 153   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 154
 155 version 0.5.5:
 156
 157   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 158   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 159   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 160   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 161   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 162   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 163   - FDC fixes for Win98
 164
 165 version 0.5.4:
 166
 167   - qemu-fast fixes
 168   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 169   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 170   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 171   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 172   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 173   - User mode network stack
 174   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 175   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 176
 177 version 0.5.3:
 178
 179   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 180   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 181   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 182   - CPU interrupt fixes
 183   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 184   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 185   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 186   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 187   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 188     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 189   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 190   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 191   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 192   - graphical x86 linux loader
 193   - command line monitor
 194   - generic removable device support
 195   - support of CD-ROM change
 196   - multiple network interface support
 197   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 198   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 199   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 200   - VM save/restore commands
 201   - new timer API
 202   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 203   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 204
 205 version 0.5.2:
 206
 207   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 208   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 209     switching tasks
 210   - improved qemu-fast speed
 211   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 212     softmmu mode).
 213   - fixed IO checking
 214   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 215   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 216   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 217   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 218   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 219     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 220   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 221   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 222   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 223   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 224   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 225   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 226   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 227   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 228   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 229
 230 version 0.5.1:
 231
 232   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 233   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 234   - A20 support
 235   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 236   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 237   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 238   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 239   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 240   - Full task switching/task gate support
 241   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 242   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 243   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 244
 245 version 0.5.0:
 246
 247   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 248   - graphical display with SDL
 249   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 250   - popw (%esp) fix
 251   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 252   - added real mode support
 253   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 254   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 255   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 256   - multi-target build
 257   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 258   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 259   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 260   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 261   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 262   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 263   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 264   - added man page
 265   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 266
 267 version 0.4.3:
 268
 269   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 270   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 271   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 272   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 273
 274 version 0.4.2:
 275
 276  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 277  - IDE emulation support
 278  - initial GDB stub support
 279  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 280  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 281  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 282
 283 version 0.4.1:
 284
 285  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 286  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 287  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 288  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 289
 290 version 0.4:
 291
 292  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 293  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 294  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 295  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 296  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 297
 298 version 0.3:
 299
 300  - initial support for ARM emulation
 301  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 302  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 303  - initial ARM port
 304  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 305  - generic ioctl number conversion
 306  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 307
 308 version 0.2:
 309
 310  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 311  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 312  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 313  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 314  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 315  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 316  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 317  - added HLT instruction
 318  - LRET instruction fix.
 319  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 320  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 321  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 322  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 323  - self-modifying code support
 324  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 325  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 326  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 327  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 328  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 329
 330 version 0.1.6:
 331
 332  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 333    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 334  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 335  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 336    translation cache is not flushed)
 337  - RH9 fixes
 338
 339 version 0.1.5:
 340
 341  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 342  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 343  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 344  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 345  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 346
 347 version 0.1.4:
 348
 349  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 350    executables in wine).
 351  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 352  - added iret instruction.
 353  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 354
 355 version 0.1.3:
 356
 357  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 358  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 359  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 360  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 361  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 362  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 363  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 364  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 365  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 366  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 367  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 368  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 369  - poll() fix
 370
 371 version 0.1.2:
 372
 373  - compile fixes
 374  - xlat instruction
 375  - xchg instruction memory lock
 376  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 377    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 378    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 379
 380 version 0.1.1:
 381
 382  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 383  - added -s and -L options
 384  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 385  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 386
 387 version 0.1:
 388
 389  - initial public release.