Changelog

   1 version 0.5.1:
   2
   3   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
   4   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
   5   - A20 support
   6
   7 version 0.5.0:
   8
   9   - full hardware level VGA emulation
  10   - graphical display with SDL
  11   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
  12   - popw (%esp) fix
  13   - mov to/from segment data width fix
  14   - added real mode support
  15   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
  16   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
  17   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
  18   - multi-target build
  19   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
  20   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
  21   - correct single stepping thru string operations
  22   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
  23   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
  24   - automatic IDE geometry detection
  25   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
  26   - added man page
  27   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
  28
  29 version 0.4.3:
  30
  31   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
  32   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
  33   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
  34   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
  35
  36 version 0.4.2:
  37
  38  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
  39  - IDE emulation support
  40  - initial GDB stub support
  41  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
  42  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
  43  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
  44
  45 version 0.4.1:
  46
  47  - more accurate timer support in vl.
  48  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
  49  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
  50  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
  51
  52 version 0.4:
  53
  54  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
  55  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
  56  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
  57  - fixed popl (%esp) case
  58  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
  59
  60 version 0.3:
  61
  62  - initial support for ARM emulation
  63  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
  64  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
  65  - initial ARM port
  66  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
  67  - generic ioctl number conversion
  68  - fixed ioctl type conversion
  69
  70 version 0.2:
  71
  72  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
  73  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
  74  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
  75  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
  76  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
  77  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
  78  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
  79  - added HLT instruction
  80  - LRET instruction fix.
  81  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
  82  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
  83  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
  84  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
  85  - self-modifying code support
  86  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
  87  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
  88  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
  89  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
  90  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
  91
  92 version 0.1.6:
  93
  94  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
  95    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
  96  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
  97  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
  98    translation cache is not flushed)
  99  - RH9 fixes
 100
 101 version 0.1.5:
 102
 103  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 104  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 105  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 106  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 107  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 108
 109 version 0.1.4:
 110
 111  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 112    executables in wine).
 113  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 114  - added iret instruction.
 115  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 116
 117 version 0.1.3:
 118
 119  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 120  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 121  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 122  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 123  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 124  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 125  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 126  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 127  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 128  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 129  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 130  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 131  - poll() fix
 132
 133 version 0.1.2:
 134
 135  - compile fixes
 136  - xlat instruction
 137  - xchg instruction memory lock
 138  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 139    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 140    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 141
 142 version 0.1.1:
 143
 144  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 145  - added -s and -L options
 146  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 147  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 148
 149 version 0.1:
 150
 151  - initial public release.