From patchwork Mon Oct 26 19:51:31 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: John Snow X-Patchwork-Id: 1388073 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=nongnu.org (client-ip=209.51.188.17; helo=lists.gnu.org; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org; receiver=) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=RXqhenTB; dkim-atps=neutral Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CKm8Y3J3Jz9sRR for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:07:25 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([::1]:57516 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kX8m3-0007Di-Cr for incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:07:23 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kX8Wz-0005Zy-VI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:51:49 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([216.205.24.124]:47563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kX8Wu-00048r-U9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:51:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1603741900; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WmThqfF1DbSzlzdl04qIjIIad7AYMRGMSuQFfmL3wGg=; b=RXqhenTBjU260N5hE9daz7SFfqNRyQM2qoII15jTvMeKigXlcb7Q5L6Ym9Pb80ZdWh8HrP Xtznl13cpUYwAn8ddxGt/dqLof4oV5o3gpoX8o84HuVZ8jBNb48Jk0hf1hwhqMFKkbMLcM qt8e71QwEcoqQ42viJYOCU3+/qCJEXE= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-143-K7hRJdRVOB6NDFu0OZa0NQ-1; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:51:34 -0400 X-MC-Unique: K7hRJdRVOB6NDFu0OZa0NQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86C8C809DD3; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from scv.redhat.com (ovpn-118-238.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.118.238]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4096B19D6C; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:51:32 +0000 (UTC) From: John Snow To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: [PATCH v2] CHANGELOG: remove disused file Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:51:31 -0400 Message-Id: <20201026195131.13848-1-jsnow@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.23 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=jsnow@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Received-SPF: pass client-ip=216.205.24.124; envelope-from=jsnow@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/26 02:39:09 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, Thomas Huth , John Snow , Peter Maydell Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" There's no reason to keep this here; the versions described are ancient. Everything here is still mirrored on https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/old if anyone is curious; otherwise, use the git history. Signed-off-by: John Snow Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée --- V2: Add new blurb in README.rst to redirect to our wiki changelog. README.rst | 8 + Changelog | 580 ----------------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 580 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Changelog diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 7497709291d..58b9f2dc15c 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ For additional information on bug reporting consult: * ``_ +ChangeLog +========= + +For version history and release notes, please visit +``_ or look at the git history for +more detailed information. + + Contact ======= diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog deleted file mode 100644 index f7e178ccc01..00000000000 --- a/Changelog +++ /dev/null @@ -1,580 +0,0 @@ -This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier. -For changelog information for later releases, see -https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for -more detailed information. - - -version 0.12.0: - - - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0 - - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori) - - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino) - - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino) - - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino) - - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori) - - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange) - - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela) - - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie) - - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori) - - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann) - - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann) - - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino) - - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange) - - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf) - - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf) - - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini) - - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka) - - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori) - - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf) - - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf) - - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf) - - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara) - - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock) - - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson) - - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil) - - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd) - - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara) - - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin) - -version 0.12.0-rc2: - - - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa) - - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino) - - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman) - - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann) - - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann) - - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka) - - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster) - - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov) - - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin) - - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie) - - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori) - - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook) - - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin) - - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster) - - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster) - - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster) - - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino) - - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino) - - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin) - - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin) - - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara) - - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka) - - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno) - -version 0.10.2: - - - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori) - - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa) - - live migration: improve error propagation (Glauber Costa) - - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright) - - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost) - - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake) - - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell) - - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno) - - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka) - - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost) - - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau) - - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber) - - fix VGA regression (malc) - -version 0.10.1: - - - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson) - - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug) - (Marcelo Tosatti) - - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added - a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori) - - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno) - - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori) - - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks - host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite - loop (Aurelien Jarno) - - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka) - - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka) - - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka) - - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka) - - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka) - - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka) - - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel) - - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation - (Ryan Harper) - -version 0.10.0: - - - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x) - - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support - - BSD userspace emulation - - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support - - GDB XML register description support - - Intel e1000 emulation - - HPET emulation - - VirtIO paravirtual device support - - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation - - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation - - PCI hotplug support - - Live migration and new save/restore formats - - Curses display support - - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats - - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS) - - Multiple VNC clients are now supported - - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC - - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau) - - Braille support (Samuel Thibault) - - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka) - - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski) - - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve) - - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz) - - Many, many, bug fixes and new features - -version 0.9.1: - - - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu) - - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong) - - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel) - - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau) - - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau) - - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif) - - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer) - - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski) - - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook) - - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm) - - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer) - - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer) - - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi) - - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf) - - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias) - - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl) - - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer) - - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh) - - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski) - - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery) - - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell) - - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster) - - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski) - -version 0.9.0: - - - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images - - Async file I/O API - - New qcow2 disk image format - - Support of multiple VM snapshots - - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support - - SMM support - - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS - - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer) - - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil) - - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont) - - m68k user support (Paul Brook) - - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes - - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori) - - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori) - - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori) - -version 0.8.2: - - - ACPI support - - PC VGA BIOS fixes - - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) - - VNC server fixes - - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) - - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil) - - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) - - USB updates (Paul Brook) - - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) - - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) - - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) - - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) - - Support for variable frequency host CPUs - - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts - - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) - - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc) - -version 0.8.1: - - - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) - - win32 host serial support (Kazu) - - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) - - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) - - SSE3 support - - Solaris port (Juergen Keil) - - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) - - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) - - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) - - USB fixes - - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook) - -version 0.8.0: - - - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s - cpu (Paul Brook) - - SMP support - - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) - - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) - - DirectSound driver (malc) - - ALSA audio driver (malc) - - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) - - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) - - Initial USB support - - Linux host serial port access - - Linux host low level parallel port access - - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. - - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation - - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) - - NX bit support - - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) - - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support - (Johannes Schindelin) - -version 0.7.2: - - - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) - - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mechanism. - - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) - - better user net performances - -version 0.7.1: - - - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) - - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir - N. Oleynik) - - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) - - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) - - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) - - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) - - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) - - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) - -version 0.7.0: - - - 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 - - x86_64 target support - - initial APIC support - - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support - - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) - - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) - - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) - - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) - - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) - - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) - - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) - - Samba 3 support - - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) - - generic FPU emulation code - - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) - -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 privilege 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 through 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 dependency - - 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.