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bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +00001version 0.5.0:
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +00002
3 - full hardware level VGA emulation
4 - graphical display with SDL
5 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
6 - popw (%esp) fix
7 - mov to/from segment data width fix
8 - added real mode support
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +00009 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +000010 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
11 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
12 - multi-target build
bellardfcf8fcc2003-09-17 22:56:56 +000013 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
14 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
15 - correct single stepping thru string operations
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +000016 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
17 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
18 - automatic IDE geometry detection
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +000019 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +000020 - added man page
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +000021 - added full soft mmy mode to launch unpatched OSes.
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +000022
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +000023version 0.4.3:
24
25 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
26 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
27 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
28 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
29
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +000030version 0.4.2:
31
32 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
33 - IDE emulation support
34 - initial GDB stub support
35 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +000036 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +000037 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
38
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +000039version 0.4.1:
40
41 - more accurate timer support in vl.
42 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
43 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
44 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
45
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +000046version 0.4:
47
48 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
49 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
50 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
51 - fixed popl (%esp) case
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +000052 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +000053
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +000054version 0.3:
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +000055
56 - initial support for ARM emulation
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +000057 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
58 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
bellard322d0c62003-06-15 23:29:28 +000059 - initial ARM port
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +000060 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
61 - generic ioctl number conversion
62 - fixed ioctl type conversion
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +000063
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +000064version 0.2:
65
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +000066 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
67 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
68 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
69 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +000070 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
71 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
72 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
bellard86840ae2003-05-08 15:30:27 +000073 - added HLT instruction
bellard70e19862003-05-14 19:02:49 +000074 - LRET instruction fix.
75 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
76 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
77 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
78 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
79 - self-modifying code support
bellarddf0f11a2003-05-28 00:27:57 +000080 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
81 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
82 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
83 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
84 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +000085
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +000086version 0.1.6:
87
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +000088 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
89 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +000090 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +000091 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
92 translation cache is not flushed)
93 - RH9 fixes
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +000094
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +000095version 0.1.5:
96
97 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
98 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
99 - removed bfd.h dependancy
100 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
101 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
102
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000103version 0.1.4:
104
105 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
106 executables in wine).
107 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
108 - added iret instruction.
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000109 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000110
111version 0.1.3:
112
113 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
114 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
115 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
116 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
117 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
118 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
119 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
120 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
121 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
122 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
123 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
124 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
125 - poll() fix
126
127version 0.1.2:
128
129 - compile fixes
130 - xlat instruction
131 - xchg instruction memory lock
132 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
133 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
134 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
135
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000136version 0.1.1:
137
138 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
139 - added -s and -L options
140 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000141 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000142
bellard3ef693a2003-03-23 20:17:16 +0000143version 0.1:
144
145 - initial public release.