Changelog

   1 version 0.4.1:
   2
   3  - more accurate timer support in vl.
   4  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
   5  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
   6  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
   7
   8 version 0.4:
   9
  10  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
  11  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
  12  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
  13  - fixed popl (%esp) case
  14  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
  15
  16 version 0.3:
  17
  18  - initial support for ARM emulation
  19  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
  20  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
  21  - initial ARM port
  22  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
  23  - generic ioctl number conversion
  24  - fixed ioctl type conversion
  25
  26 version 0.2:
  27
  28  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
  29  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
  30  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
  31  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
  32  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
  33  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
  34  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
  35  - added HLT instruction
  36  - LRET instruction fix.
  37  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
  38  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
  39  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
  40  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
  41  - self-modifying code support
  42  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
  43  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
  44  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
  45  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
  46  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
  47
  48 version 0.1.6:
  49
  50  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
  51    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
  52  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
  53  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
  54    translation cache is not flushed)
  55  - RH9 fixes
  56
  57 version 0.1.5:
  58
  59  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
  60  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
  61  - removed bfd.h dependancy
  62  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
  63  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
  64
  65 version 0.1.4:
  66
  67  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
  68    executables in wine).
  69  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
  70  - added iret instruction.
  71  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
  72
  73 version 0.1.3:
  74
  75  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
  76  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
  77  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
  78  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
  79  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
  80  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
  81  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
  82  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
  83  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
  84  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
  85  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
  86  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
  87  - poll() fix
  88
  89 version 0.1.2:
  90
  91  - compile fixes
  92  - xlat instruction
  93  - xchg instruction memory lock
  94  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
  95    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
  96    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
  97
  98 version 0.1.1:
  99
 100  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 101  - added -s and -L options
 102  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 103  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 104
 105 version 0.1:
 106
 107  - initial public release.