qemu/Changelog
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version 0.5.6:
- minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
- cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
- *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
- I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
- IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
- int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
- int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
- BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
- vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
- PCI support
- NE2K PCI support
version 0.5.5:
- SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
- VGA support on PowerPC PREP
- VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
- PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
- IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
- ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
- FDC fixes for Win98
version 0.5.4:
- qemu-fast fixes
- BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
- keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
- IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
- VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
- QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
- User mode network stack
- imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
- precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
version 0.5.3:
- added Bochs VESA VBE support
- VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
- IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
- CPU interrupt fixes
- fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
- fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
- direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
- ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
- added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
- shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
- added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
- fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
- graphical x86 linux loader
- command line monitor
- generic removable device support
- support of CD-ROM change
- multiple network interface support
- initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
- lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
- task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
- VM save/restore commands
- new timer API
- more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
- Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
version 0.5.2:
- improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
- improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
switching tasks
- improved qemu-fast speed
- improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
softmmu mode).
- fixed IO checking
- fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
- fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
- added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
- fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
- updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
- PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
- PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
- polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
- fixed PTE dirty bit handling
- fixed xadd same reg bug
- fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
- access to virtual memory in gdb stub
- task gate and NT flag fixes
- eflags optimisation fix for string operations
version 0.5.1:
- float access fixes when using soft mmu
- PC emulation support on PowerPC
- A20 support
- IDE CD-ROM emulation
- ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
- SB16 emulation (malc)
- IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
- Port I/Os use TSS io map
- Full task switching/task gate support
- added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
- PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
- Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
version 0.5.0:
- full hardware level VGA emulation
- graphical display with SDL
- added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
- popw (%esp) fix
- mov to/from segment data width fix
- added real mode support
- added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
- m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
- partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
- multi-target build
- fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
- fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
- correct single stepping thru string operations
- preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
- tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
- automatic IDE geometry detection
- renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
- added man page
- added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
version 0.4.3:
- x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
- gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
- sparc and Alpha host fixes
- many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
version 0.4.2:
- many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
- IDE emulation support
- initial GDB stub support
- deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
- accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
- SMP kernels can at least be booted
version 0.4.1:
- more accurate timer support in vl.
- more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
- added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
- added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
version 0.4:
- initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
- fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
- fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
- fixed popl (%esp) case
- Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
version 0.3:
- initial support for ARM emulation
- added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
- added FPU register save in signal emulation
- initial ARM port
- Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
- generic ioctl number conversion
- fixed ioctl type conversion
version 0.2:
- PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
- flock support (Rusty Russell)
- ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
- fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
- initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
- initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
- initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
- added HLT instruction
- LRET instruction fix.
- added GPF generation for I/Os.
- added INT3 and TF flag support.
- SHL instruction C flag fix.
- mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
- self-modifying code support
- better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
- precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
- more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
- faster segment load in vm86 mode
- direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
version 0.1.6:
- automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
- ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
- first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
translation cache is not flushed)
- RH9 fixes
version 0.1.5:
- ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
- first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
- removed bfd.h dependancy
- fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
- fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
version 0.1.4:
- more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
executables in wine).
- fixed push/pop fs/gs
- added iret instruction.
- added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
version 0.1.3:
- S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
- glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
- socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
- struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
- sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
- execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
- fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
- partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
- more accurate pushf/popf emulation
- first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
- added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
- added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
- poll() fix
version 0.1.2:
- compile fixes
- xlat instruction
- xchg instruction memory lock
- added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
version 0.1.1:
- glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
- added -s and -L options
- binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
- big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
version 0.1:
- initial public release.