Changelog

   1 version 0.6.1:
   2
   3   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
   4   - Virtual console support
   5
   6 version 0.6.0:
   7
   8   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
   9   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  10   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  11   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  12   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  13   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  14   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  15   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  16   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
  17   - PCI support
  18   - NE2K PCI support
  19   - dummy VGA PCI support
  20   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
  21   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
  22   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
  23   - added '-localtime' option
  24   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
  25   - APM and system shutdown support
  26   - Fixed system reset
  27   - Support for other PC BIOSes
  28   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
  29   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
  30   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
  31   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
  32
  33 version 0.5.5:
  34
  35   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  36   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  37   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
  38   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
  39   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
  40   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
  41   - FDC fixes for Win98
  42
  43 version 0.5.4:
  44
  45   - qemu-fast fixes
  46   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  47   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  48   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  49   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  50   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
  51   - User mode network stack
  52   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
  53   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
  54
  55 version 0.5.3:
  56
  57   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
  58   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
  59   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
  60   - CPU interrupt fixes
  61   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
  62   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
  63   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
  64   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
  65   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
  66     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
  67   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
  68   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
  69   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
  70   - graphical x86 linux loader
  71   - command line monitor
  72   - generic removable device support
  73   - support of CD-ROM change
  74   - multiple network interface support
  75   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
  76   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
  77   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
  78   - VM save/restore commands
  79   - new timer API
  80   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
  81   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
  82
  83 version 0.5.2:
  84
  85   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
  86   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
  87     switching tasks
  88   - improved qemu-fast speed
  89   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
  90     softmmu mode).
  91   - fixed IO checking
  92   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
  93   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
  94   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
  95   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
  96   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
  97     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
  98   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
  99   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 100   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 101   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 102   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 103   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 104   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 105   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 106   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 107
 108 version 0.5.1:
 109
 110   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 111   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 112   - A20 support
 113   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 114   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 115   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 116   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 117   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 118   - Full task switching/task gate support
 119   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 120   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 121   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 122
 123 version 0.5.0:
 124
 125   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 126   - graphical display with SDL
 127   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 128   - popw (%esp) fix
 129   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 130   - added real mode support
 131   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 132   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 133   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 134   - multi-target build
 135   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 136   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 137   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 138   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 139   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 140   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 141   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 142   - added man page
 143   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 144
 145 version 0.4.3:
 146
 147   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 148   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 149   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 150   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 151
 152 version 0.4.2:
 153
 154  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 155  - IDE emulation support
 156  - initial GDB stub support
 157  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 158  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 159  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 160
 161 version 0.4.1:
 162
 163  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 164  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 165  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 166  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 167
 168 version 0.4:
 169
 170  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 171  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 172  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 173  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 174  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 175
 176 version 0.3:
 177
 178  - initial support for ARM emulation
 179  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 180  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 181  - initial ARM port
 182  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 183  - generic ioctl number conversion
 184  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 185
 186 version 0.2:
 187
 188  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 189  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 190  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 191  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 192  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 193  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 194  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 195  - added HLT instruction
 196  - LRET instruction fix.
 197  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 198  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 199  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 200  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 201  - self-modifying code support
 202  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 203  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 204  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 205  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 206  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 207
 208 version 0.1.6:
 209
 210  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 211    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 212  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 213  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 214    translation cache is not flushed)
 215  - RH9 fixes
 216
 217 version 0.1.5:
 218
 219  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 220  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 221  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 222  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 223  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 224
 225 version 0.1.4:
 226
 227  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 228    executables in wine).
 229  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 230  - added iret instruction.
 231  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 232
 233 version 0.1.3:
 234
 235  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 236  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 237  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 238  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 239  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 240  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 241  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 242  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 243  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 244  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 245  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 246  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 247  - poll() fix
 248
 249 version 0.1.2:
 250
 251  - compile fixes
 252  - xlat instruction
 253  - xchg instruction memory lock
 254  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 255    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 256    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 257
 258 version 0.1.1:
 259
 260  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 261  - added -s and -L options
 262  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 263  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 264
 265 version 0.1:
 266
 267  - initial public release.