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1.1.1.23 root 1: This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
2: For changelog information for later releases, see
3: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for
4: more detailed information.
5:
6:
1.1.1.15 root 7: version 0.12.0:
8:
9: - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0
10: - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori)
11: - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino)
12: - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino)
13: - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino)
14: - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori)
15: - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
16: - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela)
17: - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie)
18: - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori)
19: - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann)
20: - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann)
21: - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann)
22: - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann)
23: - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino)
24: - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
25: - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf)
26: - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
27: - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini)
28: - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka)
29: - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori)
30: - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf)
31: - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf)
32: - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf)
33: - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara)
34: - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock)
35: - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson)
36: - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil)
37: - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd)
38: - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara)
39: - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
1.1.1.13 root 40:
1.1.1.15 root 41: version 0.12.0-rc2:
42:
43: - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
44: - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
45: - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
46: - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
47: - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
48: - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
49: - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann)
50: - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
51: - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
52: - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
53: - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
54: - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann)
55: - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
56: - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
57: - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
58: - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
59: - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
60: - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
61: - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
62: - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
63: - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster)
64: - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
65: - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster)
66: - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
67: - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
68: - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
69: - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
70: - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
71: - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
72: - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
73: - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
74: - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
75: - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)
1.1.1.10 root 76:
1.1.1.9 root 77: version 0.10.2:
78:
79: - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
80: - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
1.1.1.24! root 81: - live migration: improve error propagation (Glauber Costa)
1.1.1.9 root 82: - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
83: - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
84: - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
85: - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
86: - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
87: - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
88: - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
89: - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
90: - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
91: - fix VGA regression (malc)
92:
1.1.1.8 root 93: version 0.10.1:
94:
95: - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
96: - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
97: (Marcelo Tosatti)
98: - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
99: a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
100: - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
101: - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
102: - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
103: host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
104: loop (Aurelien Jarno)
105: - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
106: - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
107: - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
108: - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
109: - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
110: - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
111: - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
112: - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
113: (Ryan Harper)
114:
1.1.1.7 root 115: version 0.10.0:
116:
117: - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
118: - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
119: - BSD userspace emulation
120: - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
121: - GDB XML register description support
122: - Intel e1000 emulation
123: - HPET emulation
124: - VirtIO paravirtual device support
125: - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
126: - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
127: - PCI hotplug support
128: - Live migration and new save/restore formats
129: - Curses display support
130: - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
131: - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
132: - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
133: - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
134: - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
135: - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
136: - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
137: - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
138: - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
139: - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
140: - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
141:
1.1.1.6 root 142: version 0.9.1:
143:
144: - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
145: - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
146: - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
147: - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
148: - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
149: - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
150: - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
151: - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
152: - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
153: - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
154: - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
155: - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
156: - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
157: - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
158: - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
159: - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
160: - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
161: - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
162: - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
163: - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
164: - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
165: - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
166: - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
167:
1.1.1.5 root 168: version 0.9.0:
169:
170: - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
171: - Async file I/O API
172: - New qcow2 disk image format
173: - Support of multiple VM snapshots
174: - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
175: - SMM support
176: - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
177: - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
178: - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
179: - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
180: - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
181: - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
182: - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
183: - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
184: - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
185:
1.1.1.4 root 186: version 0.8.2:
187:
188: - ACPI support
189: - PC VGA BIOS fixes
190: - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
191: - VNC server fixes
192: - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
1.1.1.6 root 193: - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
1.1.1.4 root 194: - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
195: - USB updates (Paul Brook)
196: - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
197: - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
198: - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
199: - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
200: - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
201: - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
202: - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
203: - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
204:
1.1.1.3 root 205: version 0.8.1:
206:
207: - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
208: - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
209: - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
210: - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
211: - SSE3 support
1.1.1.6 root 212: - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
1.1.1.3 root 213: - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
214: - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
215: - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
216: - USB fixes
217: - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
218:
1.1.1.2 root 219: version 0.8.0:
220:
221: - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
222: cpu (Paul Brook)
223: - SMP support
224: - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
225: - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
226: - DirectSound driver (malc)
227: - ALSA audio driver (malc)
228: - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
229: - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
230: - Initial USB support
231: - Linux host serial port access
232: - Linux host low level parallel port access
233: - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
234: - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
235: - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
236: - NX bit support
237: - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
238: - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
239: (Johannes Schindelin)
240:
1.1 root 241: version 0.7.2:
1.1.1.6 root 242:
1.1 root 243: - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
244: - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
245: - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
246: - better user net performances
247:
248: version 0.7.1:
249:
250: - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
251: - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
252: N. Oleynik)
253: - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
254: - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
255: - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
256: - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
257: - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
258: - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
259:
260: version 0.7.0:
261:
262: - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
263: - user mode networking bug fix
264: - undocumented FPU ops support
265: - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
266: - 'pidfile' option
267: - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
268: - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
269: - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
270: - added generic 64 bit target support
271: - x86_64 target support
272: - initial APIC support
273: - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
274: - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
275: - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
276: - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
277: - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
278: - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
279: - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
280: - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
281: - Samba 3 support
282: - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
283: - generic FPU emulation code
284: - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
285:
286: version 0.6.1:
287:
288: - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
289: - Virtual console support
290: - Better monitor line edition
1.1.1.6 root 291: - New block device layer
1.1 root 292: - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
293: transparent decompression
294: - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
295: - Support for up to 4 serial ports
296: - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
297: - Port redirection support in user mode networking
298: - Support for not executable data sections
299: - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
300: - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
301: Wormley)
302: - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
303: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
304: - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
305: - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
306: - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
307: - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
308: - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
309: - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
310: the virtual consoles.
311: - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
312: - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
313: - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
314: - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
315: - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
316: - VGA font change fix
317: - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
318:
319: version 0.6.0:
320:
321: - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
322: - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
323: - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
324: - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
325: - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
326: - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
327: - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
328: - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
329: - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
330: - PCI support
331: - NE2K PCI support
332: - dummy VGA PCI support
333: - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
334: - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
335: - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
336: - added '-localtime' option
337: - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
338: - APM and system shutdown support
339: - Fixed system reset
340: - Support for other PC BIOSes
341: - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
342: - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
343: - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
344: - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
345:
346: version 0.5.5:
347:
348: - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
349: - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
350: - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
351: - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
352: - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
353: - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
354: - FDC fixes for Win98
355:
356: version 0.5.4:
1.1.1.6 root 357:
1.1 root 358: - qemu-fast fixes
359: - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
360: - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
361: - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
362: - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
363: - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
364: - User mode network stack
365: - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
366: - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
367:
368: version 0.5.3:
369:
370: - added Bochs VESA VBE support
371: - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
372: - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
373: - CPU interrupt fixes
374: - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
375: - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
376: - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
377: - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
378: - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
379: in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
380: - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
381: - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
382: - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
383: - graphical x86 linux loader
1.1.1.6 root 384: - command line monitor
1.1 root 385: - generic removable device support
386: - support of CD-ROM change
387: - multiple network interface support
388: - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
1.1.1.24! root 389: - lret to outer privilege fix (OS/2 install fix)
1.1 root 390: - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
391: - VM save/restore commands
392: - new timer API
393: - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
394: - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
395:
396: version 0.5.2:
397:
398: - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
399: - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
400: switching tasks
401: - improved qemu-fast speed
402: - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
403: softmmu mode).
404: - fixed IO checking
405: - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
406: - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
407: - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
408: - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
409: - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
410: when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
411: - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
412: - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
413: - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
414: - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
415: - fixed xadd same reg bug
416: - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
417: - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
418: - task gate and NT flag fixes
419: - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
420:
421: version 0.5.1:
1.1.1.6 root 422:
1.1 root 423: - float access fixes when using soft mmu
424: - PC emulation support on PowerPC
425: - A20 support
426: - IDE CD-ROM emulation
427: - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
428: - SB16 emulation (malc)
429: - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
430: - Port I/Os use TSS io map
431: - Full task switching/task gate support
432: - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
433: - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
434: - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
435:
436: version 0.5.0:
1.1.1.6 root 437:
1.1 root 438: - full hardware level VGA emulation
439: - graphical display with SDL
440: - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
441: - popw (%esp) fix
442: - mov to/from segment data width fix
443: - added real mode support
444: - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
445: - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
446: - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
447: - multi-target build
448: - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
449: - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
1.1.1.24! root 450: - correct single stepping through string operations
1.1 root 451: - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
452: - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
453: - automatic IDE geometry detection
454: - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
455: - added man page
456: - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
457:
458: version 0.4.3:
459:
460: - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
461: - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
462: - sparc and Alpha host fixes
463: - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
464:
465: version 0.4.2:
466:
467: - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
468: - IDE emulation support
469: - initial GDB stub support
470: - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
471: - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
472: - SMP kernels can at least be booted
473:
474: version 0.4.1:
1.1.1.6 root 475:
1.1 root 476: - more accurate timer support in vl.
477: - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
478: - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
479: - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
480:
481: version 0.4:
482:
483: - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
484: - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
485: - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
486: - fixed popl (%esp) case
487: - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
488:
489: version 0.3:
490:
491: - initial support for ARM emulation
492: - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
493: - added FPU register save in signal emulation
494: - initial ARM port
495: - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
496: - generic ioctl number conversion
497: - fixed ioctl type conversion
498:
499: version 0.2:
500:
501: - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
502: - flock support (Rusty Russell)
503: - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
504: - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
505: - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
506: - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
507: - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
508: - added HLT instruction
509: - LRET instruction fix.
510: - added GPF generation for I/Os.
511: - added INT3 and TF flag support.
512: - SHL instruction C flag fix.
513: - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
514: - self-modifying code support
515: - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
516: - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
517: - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
518: - faster segment load in vm86 mode
519: - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
520:
521: version 0.1.6:
522:
523: - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
524: ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
525: - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
526: - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
527: translation cache is not flushed)
528: - RH9 fixes
529:
530: version 0.1.5:
531:
532: - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
533: - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
1.1.1.23 root 534: - removed bfd.h dependency
1.1 root 535: - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
536: - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
537:
538: version 0.1.4:
539:
540: - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
541: executables in wine).
542: - fixed push/pop fs/gs
543: - added iret instruction.
544: - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
545:
546: version 0.1.3:
547:
548: - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
549: - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
550: - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
551: - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
552: - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
553: - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
554: - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
555: - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
556: - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
557: - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
558: - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
559: - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
560: - poll() fix
1.1.1.6 root 561:
1.1 root 562: version 0.1.2:
563:
564: - compile fixes
565: - xlat instruction
566: - xchg instruction memory lock
567: - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
568: DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
569: Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
570:
571: version 0.1.1:
572:
573: - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
574: - added -s and -L options
575: - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
576: - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
577:
578: version 0.1:
579:
580: - initial public release.
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