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balrog57cd6e92008-05-07 12:23:32 +00001 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
2 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
3 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
balrogc30bb262008-05-18 13:01:40 +00004 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
balrog57cd6e92008-05-07 12:23:32 +00005
bellardbfe31212008-01-06 17:10:54 +00006version 0.9.1:
7
ths430415f2007-02-23 00:34:02 +00008 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
thsad0504b2007-02-20 00:18:37 +00009 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
10 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
ths54d43f72007-02-28 22:01:13 +000011 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
ths33d68b52007-03-18 00:30:29 +000012 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
blueswir1115646b2007-10-07 10:00:55 +000013 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
ths5a5012e2007-05-07 13:55:33 +000014 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
balrog02645922007-11-03 12:50:46 +000015 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
pbrookb65df012007-05-26 16:56:01 +000016 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
ths1cd548e2007-06-25 11:41:37 +000017 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
18 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
19 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
ths6ada7452007-07-31 23:28:53 +000020 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
ths239fbd82007-09-23 15:30:28 +000021 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
ths981623f2007-10-08 13:40:13 +000022 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
blueswir1cb33da52007-10-09 16:34:29 +000023 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
thsa76dc352007-11-11 00:16:10 +000024 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
ths93a00192007-11-01 00:11:47 +000025 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
balrog02645922007-11-03 12:50:46 +000026 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
pbrook9ee6e8b2007-11-11 00:04:49 +000027 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
balrogd66846a2008-01-05 18:53:35 +000028 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
balrog6d1f1772008-01-05 19:29:17 +000029 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
balrogd66846a2008-01-05 18:53:35 +000030 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
thsad0504b2007-02-20 00:18:37 +000031
bellard7b9c30c2007-02-05 20:46:55 +000032version 0.9.0:
bellard83f64092006-08-01 16:21:11 +000033
34 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
35 - Async file I/O API
bellard13a2e802006-08-06 14:50:31 +000036 - New qcow2 disk image format
37 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
bellardf0e42172006-08-19 12:38:38 +000038 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
bellard4f3baa42006-09-24 18:49:55 +000039 - SMM support
40 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
ths9dbd25e2007-01-17 21:32:49 +000041 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
42 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
ths284ec162007-01-18 22:14:53 +000043 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellard7b9c30c2007-02-05 20:46:55 +000044 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
45 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
46 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
47 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
48 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
bellard83f64092006-08-01 16:21:11 +000049
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +000050version 0.8.2:
51
bellard856860f2006-06-14 18:18:38 +000052 - ACPI support
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +000053 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
54 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
55 - VNC server fixes
56 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
bellard9529ebc2007-02-15 22:49:45 +000057 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
bellard1579bde2006-06-25 14:50:00 +000058 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
59 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
bellard63301262006-07-16 18:56:50 +000060 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
bellardbeac80c2006-06-26 20:08:57 +000061 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
bellard63301262006-07-16 18:56:50 +000062 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
63 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
64 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
65 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
66 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
67 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +000068
bellard210fe0b2006-04-12 21:09:31 +000069version 0.8.1:
70
71 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
72 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
bellardfd06c372006-04-24 21:58:30 +000073 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
bellarda8ca6322006-04-25 22:36:31 +000074 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
75 - SSE3 support
bellard9529ebc2007-02-15 22:49:45 +000076 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
bellard27c7ca72006-04-27 21:32:09 +000077 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
bellard24236862006-04-30 21:28:36 +000078 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
bellard691fce42006-05-03 20:15:47 +000079 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
80 - USB fixes
81 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
bellard210fe0b2006-04-12 21:09:31 +000082
bellard90dc3b32005-12-19 22:28:04 +000083version 0.8.0:
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +000084
bellardb5ff1b32005-11-26 10:38:39 +000085 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
86 cpu (Paul Brook)
87 - SMP support
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +000088 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +000089 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +000090 - DirectSound driver (malc)
bellardd5d11ea2005-10-30 21:38:50 +000091 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +000092 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +000093 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bellardbb36d472005-11-05 14:22:28 +000094 - Initial USB support
bellardf8d179e2005-11-08 22:30:36 +000095 - Linux host serial port access
bellarde57a8c02005-11-10 23:58:52 +000096 - Linux host low level parallel port access
bellard41d03942005-11-15 23:02:53 +000097 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
bellardea31eb52005-12-06 21:42:03 +000098 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
bellardf881a0d2005-12-05 20:00:00 +000099 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
100 - NX bit support
bellardba3c64f2005-12-05 20:31:52 +0000101 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
bellard2c6cadd2005-12-18 18:31:45 +0000102 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
103 (Johannes Schindelin)
bellardf8d179e2005-11-08 22:30:36 +0000104
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000105version 0.7.2:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000106
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000107 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
108 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
109 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
110 - better user net performances
111
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +0000112version 0.7.1:
113
114 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellarda09db212005-04-30 16:10:35 +0000115 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
116 N. Oleynik)
bellard8979b222005-07-02 14:02:54 +0000117 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
bellard34751872005-07-02 14:31:34 +0000118 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
bellardb1957752005-07-02 15:39:14 +0000119 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
120 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
bellard33d08432005-07-03 16:45:42 +0000121 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000122 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +0000123
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000124version 0.7.0:
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +0000125
126 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
127 - user mode networking bug fix
128 - undocumented FPU ops support
bellarda07167d2004-11-30 23:41:30 +0000129 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
bellard6a78ece2004-12-08 23:47:30 +0000130 - 'pidfile' option
bellard585d0ed2004-12-12 11:24:44 +0000131 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellard3d11d0e2004-12-12 16:56:30 +0000132 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
bellard808c4952004-12-19 23:33:47 +0000133 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +0000134 - added generic 64 bit target support
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000135 - x86_64 target support
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +0000136 - initial APIC support
bellard664e0f12005-01-08 18:58:29 +0000137 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
bellard6508fe52005-01-15 12:02:56 +0000138 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +0000139 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000140 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +0000141 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
bellardb7bcbe92005-02-22 19:27:29 +0000142 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000143 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
144 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
bellard232ba5a2005-03-01 22:30:05 +0000145 - Samba 3 support
146 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000147 - generic FPU emulation code
bellard6a0f9e82005-04-27 20:17:58 +0000148 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +0000149
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +0000150version 0.6.1:
151
152 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
153 - Virtual console support
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +0000154 - Better monitor line edition
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000155 - New block device layer
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +0000156 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
157 transparent decompression
158 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
159 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
bellardc7f74642004-08-24 21:57:12 +0000160 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
bellard9bf05442004-08-25 22:12:49 +0000161 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
bellard16c460b2004-09-29 21:56:51 +0000162 - Support for not executable data sections
163 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
164 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
165 Wormley)
bellard525d67b2004-09-30 18:58:48 +0000166 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
167 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
168 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
bellarde95c8d52004-09-30 22:22:08 +0000169 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
bellard2518bd02004-09-30 22:35:13 +0000170 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
bellardd63d3072004-10-03 13:29:03 +0000171 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
bellardf9859312004-10-03 14:33:10 +0000172 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
173 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
174 the virtual consoles.
bellard655aa522004-10-09 16:48:17 +0000175 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
176 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
177 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
bellardd75d9f62004-10-09 17:20:54 +0000178 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
bellard61a8c4e2004-11-14 15:39:16 +0000179 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
bellardc76338c2004-11-14 19:52:18 +0000180 - VGA font change fix
181 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +0000182
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +0000183version 0.6.0:
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +0000184
185 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
186 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
bellardf528bfd2004-05-16 15:57:26 +0000187 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
188 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
189 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
190 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
191 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
192 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
bellard69b91032004-05-18 23:05:28 +0000193 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
194 - PCI support
195 - NE2K PCI support
bellard43990592004-05-20 13:24:37 +0000196 - dummy VGA PCI support
197 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
bellardb54ad042004-05-20 13:42:52 +0000198 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard15aeac32004-05-20 16:12:05 +0000199 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
bellardbe3edd92004-06-03 12:48:45 +0000200 - added '-localtime' option
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000201 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
bellard987c1c62004-06-20 13:02:46 +0000202 - APM and system shutdown support
203 - Fixed system reset
bellard70867492004-06-20 13:42:16 +0000204 - Support for other PC BIOSes
bellard638260e2004-06-21 19:54:19 +0000205 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
206 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +0000207 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000208 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +0000209
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000210version 0.5.5:
211
212 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
213 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
214 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000215 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
bellard66201e22004-05-04 01:29:51 +0000216 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000217 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
218 - FDC fixes for Win98
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000219
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000220version 0.5.4:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000221
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000222 - qemu-fast fixes
223 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
224 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
225 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
226 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
bellard91caaa62004-04-22 21:36:13 +0000227 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
228 - User mode network stack
229 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard52c00a52004-04-25 21:27:03 +0000230 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000231
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000232version 0.5.3:
233
bellard6411cfb2004-02-06 19:57:09 +0000234 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000235 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
236 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
237 - CPU interrupt fixes
238 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000239 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000240 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000241 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
242 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
243 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000244 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
245 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
246 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
247 - graphical x86 linux loader
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000248 - command line monitor
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000249 - generic removable device support
250 - support of CD-ROM change
251 - multiple network interface support
bellardbc51c5c2004-03-17 23:46:04 +0000252 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellardd9d849f2004-03-21 17:12:48 +0000253 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000254 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
255 - VM save/restore commands
256 - new timer API
257 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
bellard67b915a2004-03-31 23:37:16 +0000258 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000259
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000260version 0.5.2:
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000261
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000262 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
263 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
264 switching tasks
265 - improved qemu-fast speed
266 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
267 softmmu mode).
268 - fixed IO checking
269 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
270 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
271 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
272 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
273 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
274 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
bellard728c9fd2004-01-05 00:08:14 +0000275 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
276 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
277 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000278 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
279 - fixed xadd same reg bug
280 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
bellard3d4b4c02004-01-25 15:22:15 +0000281 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
282 - task gate and NT flag fixes
bellarde98c8722004-01-25 15:26:12 +0000283 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000284
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000285version 0.5.1:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000286
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000287 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
288 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
289 - A20 support
bellard181f1552003-11-13 01:47:16 +0000290 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
291 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
292 - SB16 emulation (malc)
293 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
294 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
295 - Full task switching/task gate support
bellard67867302003-11-23 17:05:30 +0000296 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
297 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard3811a292004-01-04 15:27:57 +0000298 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000299
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000300version 0.5.0:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000301
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000302 - full hardware level VGA emulation
303 - graphical display with SDL
304 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
305 - popw (%esp) fix
306 - mov to/from segment data width fix
307 - added real mode support
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000308 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000309 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
310 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
311 - multi-target build
bellardfcf8fcc2003-09-17 22:56:56 +0000312 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
313 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
314 - correct single stepping thru string operations
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000315 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
316 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
317 - automatic IDE geometry detection
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000318 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000319 - added man page
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000320 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000321
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000322version 0.4.3:
323
324 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
325 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
326 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
327 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
328
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000329version 0.4.2:
330
331 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
332 - IDE emulation support
333 - initial GDB stub support
334 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000335 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000336 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
337
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000338version 0.4.1:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000339
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000340 - more accurate timer support in vl.
341 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
342 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
343 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
344
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000345version 0.4:
346
347 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
348 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
349 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
350 - fixed popl (%esp) case
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000351 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000352
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000353version 0.3:
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000354
355 - initial support for ARM emulation
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000356 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
357 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
bellard322d0c62003-06-15 23:29:28 +0000358 - initial ARM port
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000359 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
360 - generic ioctl number conversion
361 - fixed ioctl type conversion
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000362
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000363version 0.2:
364
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000365 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
366 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
367 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
368 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000369 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
370 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
371 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
bellard86840ae2003-05-08 15:30:27 +0000372 - added HLT instruction
bellard70e19862003-05-14 19:02:49 +0000373 - LRET instruction fix.
374 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
375 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
376 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
377 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
378 - self-modifying code support
bellarddf0f11a2003-05-28 00:27:57 +0000379 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
380 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
381 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
382 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
383 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000384
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000385version 0.1.6:
386
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000387 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
388 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000389 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000390 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
391 translation cache is not flushed)
392 - RH9 fixes
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000393
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000394version 0.1.5:
395
396 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
397 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
398 - removed bfd.h dependancy
399 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
400 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
401
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000402version 0.1.4:
403
404 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
405 executables in wine).
406 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
407 - added iret instruction.
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000408 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000409
410version 0.1.3:
411
412 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
413 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
414 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
415 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
416 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
417 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
418 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
419 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
420 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
421 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
422 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
423 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
424 - poll() fix
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000425
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000426version 0.1.2:
427
428 - compile fixes
429 - xlat instruction
430 - xchg instruction memory lock
431 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
432 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
433 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
434
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000435version 0.1.1:
436
437 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
438 - added -s and -L options
439 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000440 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000441
bellard3ef693a2003-03-23 20:17:16 +0000442version 0.1:
443
444 - initial public release.