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
  10 version 0.8.1:
  11
  12   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  13   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  14   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  15   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  16   - SSE3 support
  17   - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
  18   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  19   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  20   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  21   - USB fixes
  22   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  23
  24 version 0.8.0:
  25
  26   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  27     cpu (Paul Brook)
  28   - SMP support
  29   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  30   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  31   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  32   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  33   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  34   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  35   - Initial USB support
  36   - Linux host serial port access
  37   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  38   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  39   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  40   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  41   - NX bit support
  42   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  43   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  44     (Johannes Schindelin)
  45
  46 version 0.7.2:
  47
  48   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  49   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  50   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  51   - better user net performances
  52
  53 version 0.7.1:
  54
  55   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  56   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  57     N. Oleynik)
  58   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  59   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  60   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  61   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  62   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  63   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  64
  65 version 0.7.0:
  66
  67   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  68   - user mode networking bug fix
  69   - undocumented FPU ops support
  70   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  71   - 'pidfile' option
  72   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  73   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  74   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  75   - added generic 64 bit target support
  76   - x86_64 target support
  77   - initial APIC support
  78   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  79   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  80   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  81   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  82   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  83   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  84   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  85   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  86   - Samba 3 support
  87   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  88   - generic FPU emulation code
  89   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  90
  91 version 0.6.1:
  92
  93   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  94   - Virtual console support
  95   - Better monitor line edition
  96   - New block device layer
  97   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  98     transparent decompression
  99   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 100   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 101   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 102   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 103   - Support for not executable data sections
 104   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 105   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 106     Wormley)
 107   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 108     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 109   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 110   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 111   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 112   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 113   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 114   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 115     the virtual consoles.
 116   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 117   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 118   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 119   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 120   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 121   - VGA font change fix
 122   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 123
 124 version 0.6.0:
 125
 126   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 127   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 128   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 129   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 130   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 131   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 132   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 133   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 134   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 135   - PCI support
 136   - NE2K PCI support
 137   - dummy VGA PCI support
 138   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 139   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 140   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 141   - added '-localtime' option
 142   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 143   - APM and system shutdown support
 144   - Fixed system reset
 145   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 146   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 147   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 148   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 149   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 150
 151 version 0.5.5:
 152
 153   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 154   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 155   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 156   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 157   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 158   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 159   - FDC fixes for Win98
 160
 161 version 0.5.4:
 162
 163   - qemu-fast fixes
 164   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 165   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 166   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 167   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 168   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 169   - User mode network stack
 170   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 171   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 172
 173 version 0.5.3:
 174
 175   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 176   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 177   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 178   - CPU interrupt fixes
 179   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 180   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 181   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 182   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 183   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 184     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 185   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 186   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 187   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 188   - graphical x86 linux loader
 189   - command line monitor
 190   - generic removable device support
 191   - support of CD-ROM change
 192   - multiple network interface support
 193   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 194   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 195   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 196   - VM save/restore commands
 197   - new timer API
 198   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 199   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 200
 201 version 0.5.2:
 202
 203   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 204   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 205     switching tasks
 206   - improved qemu-fast speed
 207   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 208     softmmu mode).
 209   - fixed IO checking
 210   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 211   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 212   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 213   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 214   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 215     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 216   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 217   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 218   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 219   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 220   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 221   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 222   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 223   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 224   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 225
 226 version 0.5.1:
 227
 228   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 229   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 230   - A20 support
 231   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 232   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 233   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 234   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 235   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 236   - Full task switching/task gate support
 237   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 238   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 239   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 240
 241 version 0.5.0:
 242
 243   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 244   - graphical display with SDL
 245   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 246   - popw (%esp) fix
 247   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 248   - added real mode support
 249   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 250   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 251   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 252   - multi-target build
 253   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 254   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 255   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 256   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 257   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 258   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 259   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 260   - added man page
 261   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 262
 263 version 0.4.3:
 264
 265   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 266   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 267   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 268   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 269
 270 version 0.4.2:
 271
 272  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 273  - IDE emulation support
 274  - initial GDB stub support
 275  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 276  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 277  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 278
 279 version 0.4.1:
 280
 281  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 282  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 283  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 284  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 285
 286 version 0.4:
 287
 288  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 289  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 290  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 291  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 292  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 293
 294 version 0.3:
 295
 296  - initial support for ARM emulation
 297  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 298  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 299  - initial ARM port
 300  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 301  - generic ioctl number conversion
 302  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 303
 304 version 0.2:
 305
 306  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 307  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 308  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 309  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 310  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 311  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 312  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 313  - added HLT instruction
 314  - LRET instruction fix.
 315  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 316  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 317  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 318  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 319  - self-modifying code support
 320  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 321  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 322  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 323  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 324  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 325
 326 version 0.1.6:
 327
 328  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 329    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 330  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 331  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 332    translation cache is not flushed)
 333  - RH9 fixes
 334
 335 version 0.1.5:
 336
 337  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 338  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 339  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 340  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 341  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 342
 343 version 0.1.4:
 344
 345  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 346    executables in wine).
 347  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 348  - added iret instruction.
 349  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 350
 351 version 0.1.3:
 352
 353  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 354  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 355  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 356  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 357  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 358  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 359  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 360  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 361  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 362  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 363  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 364  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 365  - poll() fix
 366
 367 version 0.1.2:
 368
 369  - compile fixes
 370  - xlat instruction
 371  - xchg instruction memory lock
 372  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 373    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 374    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 375
 376 version 0.1.1:
 377
 378  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 379  - added -s and -L options
 380  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 381  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 382
 383 version 0.1:
 384
 385  - initial public release.