Changelog

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