Changelog

   1 version 0.8.2:
   2
   3   - ACPI support
   4   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
   5   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
   6   - VNC server fixes
   7   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
   8   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)
   9   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  10   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  11   - UDP character devices (Jason Wessel)
  12   - TCP character devices
  13   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  14
  15 version 0.8.1:
  16
  17   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  18   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  19   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  20   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  21   - SSE3 support
  22   - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
  23   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  24   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  25   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  26   - USB fixes
  27   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  28
  29 version 0.8.0:
  30
  31   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  32     cpu (Paul Brook)
  33   - SMP support
  34   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  35   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  36   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  37   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  38   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  39   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  40   - Initial USB support
  41   - Linux host serial port access
  42   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  43   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  44   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  45   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  46   - NX bit support
  47   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  48   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  49     (Johannes Schindelin)
  50
  51 version 0.7.2:
  52
  53   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  54   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  55   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  56   - better user net performances
  57
  58 version 0.7.1:
  59
  60   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  61   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  62     N. Oleynik)
  63   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  64   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  65   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  66   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  67   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  68   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  69
  70 version 0.7.0:
  71
  72   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  73   - user mode networking bug fix
  74   - undocumented FPU ops support
  75   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  76   - 'pidfile' option
  77   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  78   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  79   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  80   - added generic 64 bit target support
  81   - x86_64 target support
  82   - initial APIC support
  83   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  84   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  85   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  86   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  87   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  88   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  89   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  90   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  91   - Samba 3 support
  92   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  93   - generic FPU emulation code
  94   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  95
  96 version 0.6.1:
  97
  98   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  99   - Virtual console support
 100   - Better monitor line edition
 101   - New block device layer
 102   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 103     transparent decompression
 104   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 105   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 106   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 107   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 108   - Support for not executable data sections
 109   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 110   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 111     Wormley)
 112   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 113     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 114   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 115   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 116   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 117   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 118   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 119   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 120     the virtual consoles.
 121   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 122   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 123   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 124   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 125   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 126   - VGA font change fix
 127   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 128
 129 version 0.6.0:
 130
 131   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 132   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 133   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 134   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 135   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 136   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 137   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 138   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 139   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 140   - PCI support
 141   - NE2K PCI support
 142   - dummy VGA PCI support
 143   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 144   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 145   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 146   - added '-localtime' option
 147   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 148   - APM and system shutdown support
 149   - Fixed system reset
 150   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 151   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 152   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 153   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 154   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 155
 156 version 0.5.5:
 157
 158   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 159   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 160   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 161   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 162   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 163   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 164   - FDC fixes for Win98
 165
 166 version 0.5.4:
 167
 168   - qemu-fast fixes
 169   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 170   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 171   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 172   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 173   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 174   - User mode network stack
 175   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 176   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 177
 178 version 0.5.3:
 179
 180   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 181   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 182   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 183   - CPU interrupt fixes
 184   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 185   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 186   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 187   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 188   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 189     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 190   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 191   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 192   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 193   - graphical x86 linux loader
 194   - command line monitor
 195   - generic removable device support
 196   - support of CD-ROM change
 197   - multiple network interface support
 198   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 199   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 200   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 201   - VM save/restore commands
 202   - new timer API
 203   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 204   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 205
 206 version 0.5.2:
 207
 208   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 209   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 210     switching tasks
 211   - improved qemu-fast speed
 212   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 213     softmmu mode).
 214   - fixed IO checking
 215   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 216   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 217   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 218   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 219   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 220     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 221   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 222   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 223   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 224   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 225   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 226   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 227   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 228   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 229   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 230
 231 version 0.5.1:
 232
 233   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 234   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 235   - A20 support
 236   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 237   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 238   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 239   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 240   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 241   - Full task switching/task gate support
 242   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 243   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 244   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 245
 246 version 0.5.0:
 247
 248   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 249   - graphical display with SDL
 250   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 251   - popw (%esp) fix
 252   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 253   - added real mode support
 254   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 255   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 256   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 257   - multi-target build
 258   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 259   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 260   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 261   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 262   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 263   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 264   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 265   - added man page
 266   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 267
 268 version 0.4.3:
 269
 270   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 271   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 272   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 273   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 274
 275 version 0.4.2:
 276
 277  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 278  - IDE emulation support
 279  - initial GDB stub support
 280  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 281  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 282  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 283
 284 version 0.4.1:
 285
 286  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 287  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 288  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 289  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 290
 291 version 0.4:
 292
 293  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 294  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 295  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 296  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 297  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 298
 299 version 0.3:
 300
 301  - initial support for ARM emulation
 302  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 303  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 304  - initial ARM port
 305  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 306  - generic ioctl number conversion
 307  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 308
 309 version 0.2:
 310
 311  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 312  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 313  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 314  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 315  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 316  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 317  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 318  - added HLT instruction
 319  - LRET instruction fix.
 320  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 321  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 322  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 323  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 324  - self-modifying code support
 325  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 326  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 327  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 328  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 329  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 330
 331 version 0.1.6:
 332
 333  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 334    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 335  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 336  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 337    translation cache is not flushed)
 338  - RH9 fixes
 339
 340 version 0.1.5:
 341
 342  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 343  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 344  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 345  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 346  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 347
 348 version 0.1.4:
 349
 350  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 351    executables in wine).
 352  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 353  - added iret instruction.
 354  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 355
 356 version 0.1.3:
 357
 358  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 359  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 360  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 361  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 362  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 363  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 364  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 365  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 366  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 367  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 368  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 369  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 370  - poll() fix
 371
 372 version 0.1.2:
 373
 374  - compile fixes
 375  - xlat instruction
 376  - xchg instruction memory lock
 377  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 378    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 379    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 380
 381 version 0.1.1:
 382
 383  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 384  - added -s and -L options
 385  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 386  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 387
 388 version 0.1:
 389
 390  - initial public release.