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bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +00001version 0.5.2:
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +00002
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +00003 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
4 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
5 switching tasks
6 - improved qemu-fast speed
7 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
8 softmmu mode).
9 - fixed IO checking
10 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
11 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
12 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
13 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
14 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
15 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
bellard728c9fd2004-01-05 00:08:14 +000016 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
17 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
18 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +000019 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
20 - fixed xadd same reg bug
21 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +000022
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +000023version 0.5.1:
24
25 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
26 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
27 - A20 support
bellard181f1552003-11-13 01:47:16 +000028 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
29 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
30 - SB16 emulation (malc)
31 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
32 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
33 - Full task switching/task gate support
bellard67867302003-11-23 17:05:30 +000034 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
35 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard3811a292004-01-04 15:27:57 +000036 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +000037
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +000038version 0.5.0:
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +000039
40 - full hardware level VGA emulation
41 - graphical display with SDL
42 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
43 - popw (%esp) fix
44 - mov to/from segment data width fix
45 - added real mode support
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +000046 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +000047 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
48 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
49 - multi-target build
bellardfcf8fcc2003-09-17 22:56:56 +000050 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
51 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
52 - correct single stepping thru string operations
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +000053 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
54 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
55 - automatic IDE geometry detection
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +000056 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +000057 - added man page
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +000058 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +000059
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +000060version 0.4.3:
61
62 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
63 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
64 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
65 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
66
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +000067version 0.4.2:
68
69 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
70 - IDE emulation support
71 - initial GDB stub support
72 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +000073 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +000074 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
75
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +000076version 0.4.1:
77
78 - more accurate timer support in vl.
79 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
80 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
81 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
82
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +000083version 0.4:
84
85 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
86 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
87 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
88 - fixed popl (%esp) case
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +000089 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +000090
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +000091version 0.3:
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +000092
93 - initial support for ARM emulation
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +000094 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
95 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
bellard322d0c62003-06-15 23:29:28 +000096 - initial ARM port
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +000097 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
98 - generic ioctl number conversion
99 - fixed ioctl type conversion
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000100
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000101version 0.2:
102
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000103 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
104 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
105 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
106 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000107 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
108 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
109 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
bellard86840ae2003-05-08 15:30:27 +0000110 - added HLT instruction
bellard70e19862003-05-14 19:02:49 +0000111 - LRET instruction fix.
112 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
113 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
114 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
115 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
116 - self-modifying code support
bellarddf0f11a2003-05-28 00:27:57 +0000117 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
118 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
119 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
120 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
121 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000122
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000123version 0.1.6:
124
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000125 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
126 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000127 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000128 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
129 translation cache is not flushed)
130 - RH9 fixes
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000131
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000132version 0.1.5:
133
134 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
135 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
136 - removed bfd.h dependancy
137 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
138 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
139
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000140version 0.1.4:
141
142 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
143 executables in wine).
144 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
145 - added iret instruction.
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000146 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000147
148version 0.1.3:
149
150 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
151 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
152 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
153 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
154 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
155 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
156 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
157 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
158 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
159 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
160 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
161 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
162 - poll() fix
163
164version 0.1.2:
165
166 - compile fixes
167 - xlat instruction
168 - xchg instruction memory lock
169 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
170 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
171 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
172
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000173version 0.1.1:
174
175 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
176 - added -s and -L options
177 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000178 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000179
bellard3ef693a2003-03-23 20:17:16 +0000180version 0.1:
181
182 - initial public release.