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