Changelog

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