Changelog

   1 version 0.5.5:
   2
   3   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
   4   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
   5   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
   6
   7 version 0.5.4:
   8
   9   - qemu-fast fixes
  10   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  11   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  12   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  13   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  14   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
  15   - User mode network stack
  16   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
  17   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
  18
  19 version 0.5.3:
  20
  21   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
  22   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
  23   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
  24   - CPU interrupt fixes
  25   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
  26   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
  27   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
  28   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
  29   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
  30     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
  31   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
  32   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
  33   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
  34   - graphical x86 linux loader
  35   - command line monitor
  36   - generic removable device support
  37   - support of CD-ROM change
  38   - multiple network interface support
  39   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
  40   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
  41   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
  42   - VM save/restore commands
  43   - new timer API
  44   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
  45   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
  46
  47 version 0.5.2:
  48
  49   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
  50   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
  51     switching tasks
  52   - improved qemu-fast speed
  53   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
  54     softmmu mode).
  55   - fixed IO checking
  56   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
  57   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
  58   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
  59   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
  60   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
  61     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
  62   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
  63   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
  64   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
  65   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
  66   - fixed xadd same reg bug
  67   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
  68   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
  69   - task gate and NT flag fixes
  70   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
  71
  72 version 0.5.1:
  73
  74   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
  75   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
  76   - A20 support
  77   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
  78   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
  79   - SB16 emulation (malc)
  80   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
  81   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
  82   - Full task switching/task gate support
  83   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
  84   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
  85   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
  86
  87 version 0.5.0:
  88
  89   - full hardware level VGA emulation
  90   - graphical display with SDL
  91   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
  92   - popw (%esp) fix
  93   - mov to/from segment data width fix
  94   - added real mode support
  95   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
  96   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
  97   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
  98   - multi-target build
  99   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 100   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 101   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 102   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 103   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 104   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 105   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 106   - added man page
 107   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 108
 109 version 0.4.3:
 110
 111   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 112   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 113   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 114   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 115
 116 version 0.4.2:
 117
 118  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 119  - IDE emulation support
 120  - initial GDB stub support
 121  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 122  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 123  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 124
 125 version 0.4.1:
 126
 127  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 128  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 129  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 130  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 131
 132 version 0.4:
 133
 134  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 135  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 136  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 137  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 138  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 139
 140 version 0.3:
 141
 142  - initial support for ARM emulation
 143  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 144  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 145  - initial ARM port
 146  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 147  - generic ioctl number conversion
 148  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 149
 150 version 0.2:
 151
 152  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 153  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 154  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 155  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 156  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 157  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 158  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 159  - added HLT instruction
 160  - LRET instruction fix.
 161  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 162  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 163  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 164  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 165  - self-modifying code support
 166  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 167  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 168  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 169  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 170  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 171
 172 version 0.1.6:
 173
 174  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 175    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 176  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 177  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 178    translation cache is not flushed)
 179  - RH9 fixes
 180
 181 version 0.1.5:
 182
 183  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 184  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 185  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 186  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 187  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 188
 189 version 0.1.4:
 190
 191  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 192    executables in wine).
 193  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 194  - added iret instruction.
 195  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 196
 197 version 0.1.3:
 198
 199  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 200  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 201  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 202  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 203  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 204  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 205  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 206  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 207  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 208  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 209  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 210  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 211  - poll() fix
 212
 213 version 0.1.2:
 214
 215  - compile fixes
 216  - xlat instruction
 217  - xchg instruction memory lock
 218  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 219    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 220    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 221
 222 version 0.1.1:
 223
 224  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 225  - added -s and -L options
 226  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 227  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 228
 229 version 0.1:
 230
 231  - initial public release.