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version 0.5.3: |
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- added Bochs VESA VBE support |
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- VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) |
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- IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) |
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- CPU interrupt fixes |
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- fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) |
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- fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) |
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- direct chaining support for SPARC (3x faster) |
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- ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) |
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- added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance |
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in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) |
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version 0.5.2: |
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- improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) |
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- improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when |
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switching tasks |
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- improved qemu-fast speed |
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- improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in |
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softmmu mode). |
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- fixed IO checking |
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- fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) |
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- fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) |
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- added ROM memory support (win98 boot) |
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- fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception |
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- updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically |
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when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. |
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- PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) |
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- PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) |
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- polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) |
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- fixed PTE dirty bit handling |
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- fixed xadd same reg bug |
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- fixed cmpxchg exception safeness |
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- access to virtual memory in gdb stub |
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- task gate and NT flag fixes |
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- eflags optimisation fix for string operations |
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version 0.5.1: |
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- float access fixes when using soft mmu |
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- PC emulation support on PowerPC |
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- A20 support |
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- IDE CD-ROM emulation |
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- ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) |
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- SB16 emulation (malc) |
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- IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 |
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- Port I/Os use TSS io map |
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- Full task switching/task gate support |
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- added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx |
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- PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) |
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- Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) |
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version 0.5.0: |
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- full hardware level VGA emulation |
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- graphical display with SDL |
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- added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation |
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- popw (%esp) fix |
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- mov to/from segment data width fix |
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- added real mode support |
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- added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu |
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- m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) |
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- partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os |
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- multi-target build |
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- fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts |
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- fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn |
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- correct single stepping thru string operations |
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- preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) |
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- tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) |
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- automatic IDE geometry detection |
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- renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. |
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- added man page |
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- added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. |
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version 0.4.3: |
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- x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. |
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- gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) |
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- sparc and Alpha host fixes |
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- many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. |
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version 0.4.2: |
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- many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) |
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- IDE emulation support |
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- initial GDB stub support |
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- deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) |
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- accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images |
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- SMP kernels can at least be booted |
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version 0.4.1: |
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- more accurate timer support in vl. |
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- more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. |
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- added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. |
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- added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. |
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version 0.4: |
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- initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation |
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- fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation |
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- fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() |
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- fixed popl (%esp) case |
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- Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. |
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version 0.3: |
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- initial support for ARM emulation |
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- added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions |
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- added FPU register save in signal emulation |
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- initial ARM port |
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- Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test |
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- generic ioctl number conversion |
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- fixed ioctl type conversion |
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version 0.2: |
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- PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) |
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- flock support (Rusty Russell) |
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- ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) |
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- fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) |
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- initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) |
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- initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) |
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- initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) |
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- added HLT instruction |
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- LRET instruction fix. |
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- added GPF generation for I/Os. |
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- added INT3 and TF flag support. |
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- SHL instruction C flag fix. |
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- mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB |
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- self-modifying code support |
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- better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) |
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- precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) |
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- more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation |
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- faster segment load in vm86 mode |
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- direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) |
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version 0.1.6: |
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- automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched |
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ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). |
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- ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) |
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- first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the |
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translation cache is not flushed) |
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- RH9 fixes |
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version 0.1.5: |
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- ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) |
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- first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) |
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- removed bfd.h dependancy |
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- fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. |
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- fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). |
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version 0.1.4: |
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- more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit |
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executables in wine). |
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- fixed push/pop fs/gs |
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- added iret instruction. |
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- added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. |
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version 0.1.3: |
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- S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) |
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- more accurate pushf/popf emulation |
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- first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). |
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- added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions |
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- added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations |
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- poll() fix |
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version 0.1.2: |
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- compile fixes |
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- xlat instruction |
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- xchg instruction memory lock |
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- added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte |
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DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram |
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Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). |
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version 0.1.1: |
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- glibc 2.2 compilation fixes |
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- added -s and -L options |
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- binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine |
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- big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. |
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version 0.1: |
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- initial public release. |