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