Changelog

   1 version 0.7.3:
   2
   3   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
   4   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
   5   - DirectSound driver (malc)
   6   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
   7   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
   8   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
   9   - Initial USB support
  10   - Linux host serial port access
  11
  12 version 0.7.2:
  13
  14   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  15   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  16   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  17   - better user net performances
  18
  19 version 0.7.1:
  20
  21   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  22   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  23     N. Oleynik)
  24   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  25   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  26   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  27   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  28   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  29   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  30
  31 version 0.7.0:
  32
  33   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  34   - user mode networking bug fix
  35   - undocumented FPU ops support
  36   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  37   - 'pidfile' option
  38   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  39   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  40   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  41   - added generic 64 bit target support
  42   - x86_64 target support
  43   - initial APIC support
  44   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  45   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  46   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  47   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  48   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  49   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  50   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  51   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  52   - Samba 3 support
  53   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  54   - generic FPU emulation code
  55   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  56
  57 version 0.6.1:
  58
  59   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  60   - Virtual console support
  61   - Better monitor line edition
  62   - New block device layer
  63   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  64     transparent decompression
  65   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  66   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  67   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  68   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  69   - Support for not executable data sections
  70   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  71   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  72     Wormley)
  73   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  74     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  75   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  76   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  77   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  78   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  79   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  80   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  81     the virtual consoles.
  82   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  83   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  84   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  85   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  86   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  87   - VGA font change fix
  88   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  89
  90 version 0.6.0:
  91
  92   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  93   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  94   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  95   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  96   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  97   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  98   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  99   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 100   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 101   - PCI support
 102   - NE2K PCI support
 103   - dummy VGA PCI support
 104   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 105   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 106   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 107   - added '-localtime' option
 108   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 109   - APM and system shutdown support
 110   - Fixed system reset
 111   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 112   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 113   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 114   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 115   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 116
 117 version 0.5.5:
 118
 119   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 120   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 121   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 122   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 123   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 124   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 125   - FDC fixes for Win98
 126
 127 version 0.5.4:
 128
 129   - qemu-fast fixes
 130   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 131   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 132   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 133   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 134   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 135   - User mode network stack
 136   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 137   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 138
 139 version 0.5.3:
 140
 141   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 142   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 143   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 144   - CPU interrupt fixes
 145   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 146   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 147   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 148   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 149   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 150     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 151   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 152   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 153   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 154   - graphical x86 linux loader
 155   - command line monitor
 156   - generic removable device support
 157   - support of CD-ROM change
 158   - multiple network interface support
 159   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 160   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 161   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 162   - VM save/restore commands
 163   - new timer API
 164   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 165   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 166
 167 version 0.5.2:
 168
 169   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 170   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 171     switching tasks
 172   - improved qemu-fast speed
 173   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 174     softmmu mode).
 175   - fixed IO checking
 176   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 177   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 178   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 179   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 180   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 181     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 182   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 183   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 184   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 185   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 186   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 187   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 188   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 189   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 190   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 191
 192 version 0.5.1:
 193
 194   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 195   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 196   - A20 support
 197   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 198   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 199   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 200   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 201   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 202   - Full task switching/task gate support
 203   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 204   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 205   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 206
 207 version 0.5.0:
 208
 209   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 210   - graphical display with SDL
 211   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 212   - popw (%esp) fix
 213   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 214   - added real mode support
 215   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 216   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 217   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 218   - multi-target build
 219   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 220   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 221   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 222   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 223   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 224   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 225   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 226   - added man page
 227   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 228
 229 version 0.4.3:
 230
 231   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 232   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 233   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 234   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 235
 236 version 0.4.2:
 237
 238  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 239  - IDE emulation support
 240  - initial GDB stub support
 241  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 242  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 243  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 244
 245 version 0.4.1:
 246
 247  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 248  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 249  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 250  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 251
 252 version 0.4:
 253
 254  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 255  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 256  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 257  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 258  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 259
 260 version 0.3:
 261
 262  - initial support for ARM emulation
 263  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 264  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 265  - initial ARM port
 266  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 267  - generic ioctl number conversion
 268  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 269
 270 version 0.2:
 271
 272  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 273  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 274  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 275  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 276  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 277  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 278  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 279  - added HLT instruction
 280  - LRET instruction fix.
 281  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 282  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 283  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 284  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 285  - self-modifying code support
 286  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 287  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 288  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 289  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 290  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 291
 292 version 0.1.6:
 293
 294  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 295    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 296  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 297  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 298    translation cache is not flushed)
 299  - RH9 fixes
 300
 301 version 0.1.5:
 302
 303  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 304  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 305  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 306  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 307  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 308
 309 version 0.1.4:
 310
 311  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 312    executables in wine).
 313  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 314  - added iret instruction.
 315  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 316
 317 version 0.1.3:
 318
 319  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 320  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 321  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 322  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 323  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 324  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 325  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 326  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 327  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 328  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 329  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 330  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 331  - poll() fix
 332
 333 version 0.1.2:
 334
 335  - compile fixes
 336  - xlat instruction
 337  - xchg instruction memory lock
 338  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 339    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 340    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 341
 342 version 0.1.1:
 343
 344  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 345  - added -s and -L options
 346  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 347  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 348
 349 version 0.1:
 350
 351  - initial public release.