Changelog

   1 version 0.4.4:
   2
   3   - full hardware level VGA emulation
   4   - graphical display with SDL
   5   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
   6   - popw (%esp) fix
   7   - mov to/from segment data width fix
   8   - added real mode support
   9   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in vl
  10   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
  11   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
  12   - multi-target build
  13
  14 version 0.4.3:
  15
  16   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
  17   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
  18   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
  19   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
  20
  21 version 0.4.2:
  22
  23  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
  24  - IDE emulation support
  25  - initial GDB stub support
  26  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
  27  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
  28  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
  29
  30 version 0.4.1:
  31
  32  - more accurate timer support in vl.
  33  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
  34  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
  35  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
  36
  37 version 0.4:
  38
  39  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
  40  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
  41  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
  42  - fixed popl (%esp) case
  43  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
  44
  45 version 0.3:
  46
  47  - initial support for ARM emulation
  48  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
  49  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
  50  - initial ARM port
  51  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
  52  - generic ioctl number conversion
  53  - fixed ioctl type conversion
  54
  55 version 0.2:
  56
  57  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
  58  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
  59  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
  60  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
  61  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
  62  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
  63  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
  64  - added HLT instruction
  65  - LRET instruction fix.
  66  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
  67  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
  68  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
  69  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
  70  - self-modifying code support
  71  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
  72  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
  73  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
  74  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
  75  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
  76
  77 version 0.1.6:
  78
  79  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
  80    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
  81  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
  82  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
  83    translation cache is not flushed)
  84  - RH9 fixes
  85
  86 version 0.1.5:
  87
  88  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
  89  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
  90  - removed bfd.h dependancy
  91  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
  92  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
  93
  94 version 0.1.4:
  95
  96  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
  97    executables in wine).
  98  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
  99  - added iret instruction.
 100  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 101
 102 version 0.1.3:
 103
 104  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 105  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 106  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 107  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 108  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 109  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 110  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 111  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 112  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 113  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 114  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 115  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 116  - poll() fix
 117
 118 version 0.1.2:
 119
 120  - compile fixes
 121  - xlat instruction
 122  - xchg instruction memory lock
 123  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 124    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 125    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 126
 127 version 0.1.1:
 128
 129  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 130  - added -s and -L options
 131  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 132  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 133
 134 version 0.1:
 135
 136  - initial public release.