Changelog

   1 version 0.8.2:
   2
   3   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
   4   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
   5   - VNC server fixes
   6   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
   7   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)
   8
   9 version 0.8.1:
  10
  11   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  12   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  13   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  14   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  15   - SSE3 support
  16   - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
  17   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  18   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  19   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  20   - USB fixes
  21   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  22
  23 version 0.8.0:
  24
  25   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  26     cpu (Paul Brook)
  27   - SMP support
  28   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  29   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  30   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  31   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  32   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  33   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  34   - Initial USB support
  35   - Linux host serial port access
  36   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  37   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  38   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  39   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  40   - NX bit support
  41   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  42   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  43     (Johannes Schindelin)
  44
  45 version 0.7.2:
  46
  47   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  48   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  49   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  50   - better user net performances
  51
  52 version 0.7.1:
  53
  54   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  55   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  56     N. Oleynik)
  57   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  58   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  59   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  60   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  61   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  62   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  63
  64 version 0.7.0:
  65
  66   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  67   - user mode networking bug fix
  68   - undocumented FPU ops support
  69   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  70   - 'pidfile' option
  71   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  72   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  73   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  74   - added generic 64 bit target support
  75   - x86_64 target support
  76   - initial APIC support
  77   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  78   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  79   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  80   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  81   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  82   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  83   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  84   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  85   - Samba 3 support
  86   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  87   - generic FPU emulation code
  88   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  89
  90 version 0.6.1:
  91
  92   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  93   - Virtual console support
  94   - Better monitor line edition
  95   - New block device layer
  96   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  97     transparent decompression
  98   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  99   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 100   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 101   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 102   - Support for not executable data sections
 103   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 104   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 105     Wormley)
 106   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 107     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 108   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 109   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 110   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 111   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 112   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 113   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 114     the virtual consoles.
 115   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 116   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 117   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 118   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 119   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 120   - VGA font change fix
 121   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 122
 123 version 0.6.0:
 124
 125   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 126   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 127   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 128   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 129   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 130   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 131   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 132   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 133   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 134   - PCI support
 135   - NE2K PCI support
 136   - dummy VGA PCI support
 137   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 138   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 139   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 140   - added '-localtime' option
 141   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 142   - APM and system shutdown support
 143   - Fixed system reset
 144   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 145   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 146   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 147   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 148   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 149
 150 version 0.5.5:
 151
 152   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 153   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 154   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 155   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 156   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 157   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 158   - FDC fixes for Win98
 159
 160 version 0.5.4:
 161
 162   - qemu-fast fixes
 163   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 164   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 165   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 166   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 167   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 168   - User mode network stack
 169   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 170   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 171
 172 version 0.5.3:
 173
 174   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 175   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 176   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 177   - CPU interrupt fixes
 178   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 179   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 180   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 181   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 182   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 183     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 184   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 185   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 186   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 187   - graphical x86 linux loader
 188   - command line monitor
 189   - generic removable device support
 190   - support of CD-ROM change
 191   - multiple network interface support
 192   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 193   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 194   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 195   - VM save/restore commands
 196   - new timer API
 197   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 198   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 199
 200 version 0.5.2:
 201
 202   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 203   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 204     switching tasks
 205   - improved qemu-fast speed
 206   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 207     softmmu mode).
 208   - fixed IO checking
 209   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 210   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 211   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 212   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 213   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 214     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 215   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 216   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 217   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 218   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 219   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 220   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 221   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 222   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 223   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 224
 225 version 0.5.1:
 226
 227   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 228   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 229   - A20 support
 230   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 231   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 232   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 233   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 234   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 235   - Full task switching/task gate support
 236   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 237   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 238   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 239
 240 version 0.5.0:
 241
 242   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 243   - graphical display with SDL
 244   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 245   - popw (%esp) fix
 246   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 247   - added real mode support
 248   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 249   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 250   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 251   - multi-target build
 252   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 253   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 254   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 255   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 256   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 257   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 258   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 259   - added man page
 260   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 261
 262 version 0.4.3:
 263
 264   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 265   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 266   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 267   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 268
 269 version 0.4.2:
 270
 271  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 272  - IDE emulation support
 273  - initial GDB stub support
 274  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 275  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 276  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 277
 278 version 0.4.1:
 279
 280  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 281  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 282  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 283  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 284
 285 version 0.4:
 286
 287  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 288  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 289  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 290  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 291  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 292
 293 version 0.3:
 294
 295  - initial support for ARM emulation
 296  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 297  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 298  - initial ARM port
 299  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 300  - generic ioctl number conversion
 301  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 302
 303 version 0.2:
 304
 305  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 306  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 307  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 308  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 309  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 310  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 311  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 312  - added HLT instruction
 313  - LRET instruction fix.
 314  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 315  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 316  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 317  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 318  - self-modifying code support
 319  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 320  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 321  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 322  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 323  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 324
 325 version 0.1.6:
 326
 327  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 328    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 329  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 330  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 331    translation cache is not flushed)
 332  - RH9 fixes
 333
 334 version 0.1.5:
 335
 336  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 337  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 338  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 339  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 340  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 341
 342 version 0.1.4:
 343
 344  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 345    executables in wine).
 346  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 347  - added iret instruction.
 348  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 349
 350 version 0.1.3:
 351
 352  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 353  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 354  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 355  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 356  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 357  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 358  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 359  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 360  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 361  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 362  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 363  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 364  - poll() fix
 365
 366 version 0.1.2:
 367
 368  - compile fixes
 369  - xlat instruction
 370  - xchg instruction memory lock
 371  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 372    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 373    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 374
 375 version 0.1.1:
 376
 377  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 378  - added -s and -L options
 379  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 380  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 381
 382 version 0.1:
 383
 384  - initial public release.