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diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58f3e5e --- /dev/null +++ b/Changelog @@ -0,0 +1,395 @@ +version 0.8.2: + + - ACPI support + - PC VGA BIOS fixes + - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) + - VNC server fixes + - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) + - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor) + - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) + - USB updates (Paul Brook) + - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) + - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) + - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) + - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) + - Support for variable frequency host CPUs + - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts + - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) + - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc) + +version 0.8.1: + + - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) + - win32 host serial support (Kazu) + - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) + - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) + - SSE3 support + - Solaris port (Ben Taylor) + - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) + - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) + - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) + - USB fixes + - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook) + +version 0.8.0: + + - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s + cpu (Paul Brook) + - SMP support + - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) + - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) + - DirectSound driver (malc) + - ALSA audio driver (malc) + - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) + - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) + - Initial USB support + - Linux host serial port access + - Linux host low level parallel port access + - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. + - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation + - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) + - NX bit support + - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) + - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support + (Johannes Schindelin) + +version 0.7.2: + + - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) + - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism. + - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) + - better user net performances + +version 0.7.1: + + - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) + - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir + N. Oleynik) + - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) + - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) + - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) + - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) + - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) + - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) + +version 0.7.0: + + - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection + - user mode networking bug fix + - undocumented FPU ops support + - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes + - 'pidfile' option + - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) + - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) + - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) + - added generic 64 bit target support + - x86_64 target support + - initial APIC support + - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support + - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) + - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) + - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) + - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) + - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) + - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) + - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) + - Samba 3 support + - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) + - generic FPU emulation code + - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) + +version 0.6.1: + + - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) + - Virtual console support + - Better monitor line edition + - New block device layer + - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and + transparent decompression + - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) + - Support for up to 4 serial ports + - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) + - Port redirection support in user mode networking + - Support for not executable data sections + - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) + - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve + Wormley) + - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any + LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) + - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) + - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) + - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. + - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options + - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) + - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to + the virtual consoles. + - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) + - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) + - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) + - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) + - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) + - VGA font change fix + - VGA read-only CRTC register fix + +version 0.6.0: + + - 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 + - dummy VGA PCI support + - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) + - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) + - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) + - added '-localtime' option + - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) + - APM and system shutdown support + - Fixed system reset + - Support for other PC BIOSes + - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation + - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) + - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) + - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB + +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. |