Changelog

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