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/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
  12   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  13   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
  14   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
  15   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
  16   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
  17   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
  18   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
  19
  20 version 0.8.1:
  21
  22   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  23   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  24   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  25   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  26   - SSE3 support
  27   - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
  28   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  29   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  30   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  31   - USB fixes
  32   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  33
  34 version 0.8.0:
  35
  36   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  37     cpu (Paul Brook)
  38   - SMP support
  39   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  40   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  41   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  42   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  43   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  44   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  45   - Initial USB support
  46   - Linux host serial port access
  47   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  48   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  49   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  50   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  51   - NX bit support
  52   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  53   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  54     (Johannes Schindelin)
  55
  56 version 0.7.2:
  57
  58   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  59   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  60   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  61   - better user net performances
  62
  63 version 0.7.1:
  64
  65   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  66   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  67     N. Oleynik)
  68   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  69   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  70   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  71   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  72   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  73   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  74
  75 version 0.7.0:
  76
  77   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  78   - user mode networking bug fix
  79   - undocumented FPU ops support
  80   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  81   - 'pidfile' option
  82   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  83   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  84   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  85   - added generic 64 bit target support
  86   - x86_64 target support
  87   - initial APIC support
  88   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  89   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  90   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  91   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  92   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  93   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  94   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  95   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  96   - Samba 3 support
  97   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  98   - generic FPU emulation code
  99   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 100
 101 version 0.6.1:
 102
 103   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 104   - Virtual console support
 105   - Better monitor line edition
 106   - New block device layer
 107   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 108     transparent decompression
 109   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 110   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 111   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 112   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 113   - Support for not executable data sections
 114   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 115   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 116     Wormley)
 117   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 118     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 119   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 120   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 121   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 122   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 123   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 124   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 125     the virtual consoles.
 126   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 127   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 128   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 129   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 130   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 131   - VGA font change fix
 132   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 133
 134 version 0.6.0:
 135
 136   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 137   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 138   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 139   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 140   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 141   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 142   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 143   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 144   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 145   - PCI support
 146   - NE2K PCI support
 147   - dummy VGA PCI support
 148   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 149   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 150   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 151   - added '-localtime' option
 152   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 153   - APM and system shutdown support
 154   - Fixed system reset
 155   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 156   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 157   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 158   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 159   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 160
 161 version 0.5.5:
 162
 163   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 164   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 165   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 166   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 167   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 168   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 169   - FDC fixes for Win98
 170
 171 version 0.5.4:
 172
 173   - qemu-fast fixes
 174   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 175   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 176   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 177   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 178   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 179   - User mode network stack
 180   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 181   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 182
 183 version 0.5.3:
 184
 185   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 186   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 187   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 188   - CPU interrupt fixes
 189   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 190   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 191   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 192   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 193   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 194     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 195   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 196   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 197   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 198   - graphical x86 linux loader
 199   - command line monitor
 200   - generic removable device support
 201   - support of CD-ROM change
 202   - multiple network interface support
 203   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 204   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 205   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 206   - VM save/restore commands
 207   - new timer API
 208   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 209   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 210
 211 version 0.5.2:
 212
 213   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 214   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 215     switching tasks
 216   - improved qemu-fast speed
 217   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 218     softmmu mode).
 219   - fixed IO checking
 220   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 221   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 222   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 223   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 224   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 225     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 226   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 227   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 228   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 229   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 230   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 231   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 232   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 233   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 234   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 235
 236 version 0.5.1:
 237
 238   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 239   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 240   - A20 support
 241   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 242   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 243   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 244   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 245   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 246   - Full task switching/task gate support
 247   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 248   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 249   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 250
 251 version 0.5.0:
 252
 253   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 254   - graphical display with SDL
 255   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 256   - popw (%esp) fix
 257   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 258   - added real mode support
 259   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 260   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 261   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 262   - multi-target build
 263   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 264   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 265   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 266   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 267   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 268   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 269   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 270   - added man page
 271   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 272
 273 version 0.4.3:
 274
 275   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 276   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 277   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 278   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 279
 280 version 0.4.2:
 281
 282  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 283  - IDE emulation support
 284  - initial GDB stub support
 285  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 286  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 287  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 288
 289 version 0.4.1:
 290
 291  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 292  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 293  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 294  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 295
 296 version 0.4:
 297
 298  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 299  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 300  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 301  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 302  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 303
 304 version 0.3:
 305
 306  - initial support for ARM emulation
 307  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 308  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 309  - initial ARM port
 310  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 311  - generic ioctl number conversion
 312  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 313
 314 version 0.2:
 315
 316  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 317  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 318  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 319  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 320  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 321  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 322  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 323  - added HLT instruction
 324  - LRET instruction fix.
 325  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 326  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 327  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 328  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 329  - self-modifying code support
 330  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 331  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 332  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 333  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 334  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 335
 336 version 0.1.6:
 337
 338  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 339    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 340  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 341  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 342    translation cache is not flushed)
 343  - RH9 fixes
 344
 345 version 0.1.5:
 346
 347  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 348  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 349  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 350  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 351  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 352
 353 version 0.1.4:
 354
 355  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 356    executables in wine).
 357  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 358  - added iret instruction.
 359  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 360
 361 version 0.1.3:
 362
 363  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 364  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 365  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 366  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 367  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 368  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 369  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 370  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 371  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 372  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 373  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 374  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 375  - poll() fix
 376
 377 version 0.1.2:
 378
 379  - compile fixes
 380  - xlat instruction
 381  - xchg instruction memory lock
 382  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 383    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 384    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 385
 386 version 0.1.1:
 387
 388  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 389  - added -s and -L options
 390  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 391  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 392
 393 version 0.1:
 394
 395  - initial public release.