X-Git-Url: http://vcs.maemo.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changelog;h=2d1c067272cada9e10c11ea98c4bf15c3931a5c9;hb=3cc6237083cd40247e060c1fcf403a2d9ccbaf92;hp=03158ccb5a3cc5656f9d75813628b8f6cf884275;hpb=1eb87257dae084166f0a007a9bfa8052e1784108;p=qemu diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog index 03158cc..2d1c067 100644 --- a/Changelog +++ b/Changelog @@ -1,3 +1,256 @@ +version 0.6.2: + + - 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 + - initial x86_64 target support + - initial APIC support + - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support + - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) + - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) + - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) + +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