Changelog

   1 version 0.7.3:
   2
   3   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
   4     cpu (Paul Brook)
   5   - SMP support
   6   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
   7   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
   8   - DirectSound driver (malc)
   9   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  10   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  11   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  12   - Initial USB support
  13   - Linux host serial port access
  14   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  15   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  16
  17 version 0.7.2:
  18
  19   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  20   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  21   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  22   - better user net performances
  23
  24 version 0.7.1:
  25
  26   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  27   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  28     N. Oleynik)
  29   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  30   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  31   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  32   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  33   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  34   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  35
  36 version 0.7.0:
  37
  38   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  39   - user mode networking bug fix
  40   - undocumented FPU ops support
  41   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  42   - 'pidfile' option
  43   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  44   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  45   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  46   - added generic 64 bit target support
  47   - x86_64 target support
  48   - initial APIC support
  49   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  50   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  51   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  52   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  53   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  54   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  55   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  56   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  57   - Samba 3 support
  58   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  59   - generic FPU emulation code
  60   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  61
  62 version 0.6.1:
  63
  64   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  65   - Virtual console support
  66   - Better monitor line edition
  67   - New block device layer
  68   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  69     transparent decompression
  70   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  71   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  72   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  73   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  74   - Support for not executable data sections
  75   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  76   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  77     Wormley)
  78   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  79     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  80   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  81   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  82   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  83   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  84   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  85   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  86     the virtual consoles.
  87   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  88   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  89   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  90   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  91   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  92   - VGA font change fix
  93   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  94
  95 version 0.6.0:
  96
  97   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  98   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  99   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 100   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 101   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 102   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 103   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 104   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 105   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 106   - PCI support
 107   - NE2K PCI support
 108   - dummy VGA PCI support
 109   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 110   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 111   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 112   - added '-localtime' option
 113   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 114   - APM and system shutdown support
 115   - Fixed system reset
 116   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 117   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 118   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 119   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 120   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 121
 122 version 0.5.5:
 123
 124   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 125   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 126   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 127   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 128   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 129   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 130   - FDC fixes for Win98
 131
 132 version 0.5.4:
 133
 134   - qemu-fast fixes
 135   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 136   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 137   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 138   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 139   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 140   - User mode network stack
 141   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 142   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 143
 144 version 0.5.3:
 145
 146   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 147   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 148   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 149   - CPU interrupt fixes
 150   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 151   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 152   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 153   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 154   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 155     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 156   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 157   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 158   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 159   - graphical x86 linux loader
 160   - command line monitor
 161   - generic removable device support
 162   - support of CD-ROM change
 163   - multiple network interface support
 164   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 165   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 166   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 167   - VM save/restore commands
 168   - new timer API
 169   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 170   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 171
 172 version 0.5.2:
 173
 174   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 175   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 176     switching tasks
 177   - improved qemu-fast speed
 178   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 179     softmmu mode).
 180   - fixed IO checking
 181   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 182   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 183   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 184   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 185   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 186     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 187   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 188   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 189   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 190   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 191   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 192   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 193   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 194   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 195   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 196
 197 version 0.5.1:
 198
 199   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 200   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 201   - A20 support
 202   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 203   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 204   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 205   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 206   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 207   - Full task switching/task gate support
 208   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 209   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 210   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 211
 212 version 0.5.0:
 213
 214   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 215   - graphical display with SDL
 216   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 217   - popw (%esp) fix
 218   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 219   - added real mode support
 220   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 221   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 222   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 223   - multi-target build
 224   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 225   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 226   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 227   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 228   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 229   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 230   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 231   - added man page
 232   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 233
 234 version 0.4.3:
 235
 236   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 237   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 238   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 239   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 240
 241 version 0.4.2:
 242
 243  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 244  - IDE emulation support
 245  - initial GDB stub support
 246  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 247  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 248  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 249
 250 version 0.4.1:
 251
 252  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 253  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 254  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 255  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 256
 257 version 0.4:
 258
 259  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 260  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 261  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 262  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 263  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 264
 265 version 0.3:
 266
 267  - initial support for ARM emulation
 268  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 269  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 270  - initial ARM port
 271  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 272  - generic ioctl number conversion
 273  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 274
 275 version 0.2:
 276
 277  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 278  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 279  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 280  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 281  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 282  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 283  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 284  - added HLT instruction
 285  - LRET instruction fix.
 286  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 287  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 288  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 289  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 290  - self-modifying code support
 291  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 292  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 293  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 294  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 295  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 296
 297 version 0.1.6:
 298
 299  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 300    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 301  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 302  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 303    translation cache is not flushed)
 304  - RH9 fixes
 305
 306 version 0.1.5:
 307
 308  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 309  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 310  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 311  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 312  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 313
 314 version 0.1.4:
 315
 316  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 317    executables in wine).
 318  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 319  - added iret instruction.
 320  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 321
 322 version 0.1.3:
 323
 324  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 325  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 326  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 327  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 328  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 329  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 330  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 331  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 332  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 333  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 334  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 335  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 336  - poll() fix
 337
 338 version 0.1.2:
 339
 340  - compile fixes
 341  - xlat instruction
 342  - xchg instruction memory lock
 343  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 344    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 345    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 346
 347 version 0.1.1:
 348
 349  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 350  - added -s and -L options
 351  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 352  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 353
 354 version 0.1:
 355
 356  - initial public release.