3 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
4 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
6 - improved qemu-fast speed
7 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
10 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
11 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
12 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
13 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
14 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
15 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
16 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
17 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
18 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
19 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
20 - fixed xadd same reg bug
21 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
25 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
26 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
28 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
29 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
30 - SB16 emulation (malc)
31 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
32 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
33 - Full task switching/task gate support
34 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
35 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
36 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
40 - full hardware level VGA emulation
41 - graphical display with SDL
42 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
44 - mov to/from segment data width fix
45 - added real mode support
46 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
47 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
48 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
50 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
51 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
52 - correct single stepping thru string operations
53 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
54 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
55 - automatic IDE geometry detection
56 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
58 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
62 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
63 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
64 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
65 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
69 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
70 - IDE emulation support
71 - initial GDB stub support
72 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
73 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
74 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
78 - more accurate timer support in vl.
79 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
80 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
81 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
85 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
86 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
87 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
88 - fixed popl (%esp) case
89 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
93 - initial support for ARM emulation
94 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
95 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
97 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
98 - generic ioctl number conversion
99 - fixed ioctl type conversion
103 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
104 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
105 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
106 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
107 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
108 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
109 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
110 - added HLT instruction
111 - LRET instruction fix.
112 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
113 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
114 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
115 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
116 - self-modifying code support
117 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
118 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
119 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
120 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
121 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
125 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
126 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
127 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
128 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
129 translation cache is not flushed)
134 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
135 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
136 - removed bfd.h dependancy
137 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
138 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
142 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
143 executables in wine).
144 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
145 - added iret instruction.
146 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
150 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
151 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
152 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
153 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
154 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
155 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
156 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
157 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
158 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
159 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
160 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
161 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
168 - xchg instruction memory lock
169 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
170 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
171 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
175 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
176 - added -s and -L options
177 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
178 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
182 - initial public release.