Changelog

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