| 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. |
| |
| 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. |
