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