1 Changes in 2.3.6 (December 24, 2007):
5 + More than 25% emulation speedup vs Bochs 2.3.5 release!
7 - Thanks to Darek Mihocka (http://www.emulators.com)
8 for providing patches and ideas that made the
11 + Up to 40% speedup vs Bochs 2.3.5 release with trace cache optimization!
13 - Lots of bugfixes in CPU emulation
14 - Bochs benchmarking support
15 - Added emulation of Intel SSE4.2 instruction set
20 - Added emulation of SSE4.2 instruction set, to enable use
21 --enable-sse=4 --enable-sse-extension configure options
22 to enable POPCNT instruction only use configure option
24 - Implemented MTRR emulation, to enable use --enable-mtrr configure
25 option. MTRRs is enabled by default when cpu-level >= 6.
26 - Implemented experimental MONITOR/MWAIT support including optimized
27 MWAIT CPU state and hardware monitoring of physical address range,
28 to enable use --enable-monitor-mwait configure option.
29 - Removed hostasm optimizations, after Bochs rebenchmarking it was found
30 that the feature bringing no speedup or even sometimes slows down
32 - Merged trace cache optimization patch, the trace cache optimization
33 is enabled by default when configure with --enable-all-optimizations
34 option, to disable trace cache optimization configure with
36 - Many minor bugfixes in CPU emulation (both ia32 and x86-64)
37 - Updated CPU instrumentation callbacks
39 - Bochs Internal Debugger and Disassembler
40 - Many fixes in Bochs internal debugger and disassembler, some debugger
41 interfaces significantly changed due transition to the param tree
43 - Added support for restoring of the CPU state from external file
44 directly from Bochs debugger
46 - Configure and compile
47 - Renamed configure option --enable-4meg-pages to --enable-large-pages.
48 The option enables page size extensions (PSE) which refers to 2M pages
50 - Removed --enable-save-restore configure option, save/restore feature
51 changed to be one of the basic Bochs features and compiled by default
52 for all configurations.
53 - Added new Bochs benchmark mode. To run Bochs in benchmark mode execute
54 it with new command line option 'bochs -benchmark time'. The emulation
55 will be automatically stopped after 'time' millions of emulation
57 - Another very useful option for benchmarking of Bochs could be enabled
58 using new 'print_timestamps' directive from .bochsrc:
59 print_timestamps: enable=1
60 - Added --enable-show-ips option to all configuration scripts used to
61 build release binaries, so all future releases will enjoy IPS display.
62 - Enable alignment check in the CPU and #AC exception by default for
63 --cpu-level >= 4 (like in real hardware)
66 [1857149] Define some IPL values by Sebastian
67 [1850183] Get memory access mode in BX_INSTR_LIN_READ by Lluis Vilanova
68 [1841421] pic: keep slave_pic.INT and master_pic.IRQ_in bit 2 in sync by Russ Cox
69 [1841420] give segment numbers in exception logs by Russ Cox
70 [1801696] Allow Intel builds on Mac OS X
71 [1830658] Fix >32GB disk banner by Samuel Thibault
72 [1813314] Move #define IPL_* and typedef ipl_entry by Sebastian
73 [1809001] Save PnP Option ROM Product Name string in IPL Boot Table by Sebastian
74 [1821242] Fix for #1801285, Niclist.exe broken by Sebastian
75 [1819567] Code warning cleanup
76 [1816162] Update comment on bios_printf() by Sebastian
77 [1811139] Trivial Fix when BX_PCIBIOS and BX_ROMBIOS32 not defined by Myles Watson
78 [1811190] Improve HD recognition and CD boot by Myles Watson
79 [1811860] Implement %X in bios_printf by Sebastian
80 [1809649] printf %lx %ld %lu by Myles Watson
81 [1809651] move BX_SUPPORT_FLOPPY by Myles Watson
82 [1809652] dpte and Int13DPT fixes by Myles Watson
83 [1809669] clip cylinders to 16383 in hard drive by Myles Watson
84 [1799903] Build BIOS on amd64 by Robert Millan
85 [1799877] Fix for parallel build (make -j2) by Robert Millan
87 - these S.F. bugs were closed
88 [1837354] website bug: View the Source link broken
89 [1801268] Reset from real mode no longer working
90 [1843250] Using forward slashes gives invalid filename
91 [1823446] BIOS bug, local APIC #0 not detected
92 [1801285] Niclist.exe broken
93 [1364472] breakpoints sometimes don't work
94 [994451] breakpoint bug
95 [1801295] NSIS installer vs Windows Notepad
96 [1715328] Unreal mode quirk
97 [1503972] debugger doesn't debug first instruction on exception
98 [1069071] div al, byte ptr [ds:0x7c18] fails to execute
99 [1800080] Wrong "BX_MAX_SMP_THREADS_SUPPORTED" assertion
101 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
102 Changes in 2.3.5 (September 16, 2007):
105 - Critical problems fixed for x86-64 support in CPU and Bochs internal debugger
107 - The release compiled with x86-64 and ACPI
108 - Hard disk emulation supports ATA-6 (LBA48 addressing, UDMA modes)
109 - Added emulation of Intel SSE4.1 instruction set
111 Detailed change log :
114 - Fixed critical bug with 0x90 opcode (NOP) handling in x86-64 mode
115 - implied stack references where the stack address is not in canonical form
116 should causes a stack exception (#SS)
117 - Added emulation of SSE4.1 instruction set (Stanislav)
118 - Do not save and restore XMM8-XMM15 registers when not in x86-64 mode
119 - Fixed zero upper 32-bit part of GPR in x86-64 mode
120 - CMOV_GdEd should zero upper 32-bit part of GPR register even if the
121 'cmov' condition was false !
122 - Implemented CLFLUSH instruction, report non-zero cache size in CPUID
123 - Fixed PUSHA/POPA instructions behavior in real mode
124 - Fixed detection of inexact result by FPU
125 - Fixed denormals-are-zero (DAZ) handling by SSE convert instructions
126 - Implemented Misaligned Exception Mask support for SSE (MXCSR[17])
127 - Implemented Alignment Check in the CPU and #AC exception, to enable
128 use --enable-alignment-check configure option
131 - 2nd simulation support in wxBochs now almost usable (simulation cleanup
132 code added and memory leaks fixed)
134 - Configure and compile
135 - several fixes for MacOSX, OpenBSD and Solaris 10
136 - enable save/restore feature by default for all configurations
137 - reorganized SSE configure options to match Intel(R) Programming
138 Reference Manual, new option introduced for SSE extensions enabling.
139 To enable Intel Core Duo 2 new instructions use
140 --enable-sse=3 --enable-sse-extension
141 enabling of SSE4.1 (--enable-sse=4) will enable SSE3 extensions as well
142 - removed old PIT, always use new PIT written by Greg Alexander,
143 removed configure option --enable-new-pit
145 - I/O devices (Volker)
147 - partial non-DMA mode support (patch by John Comeau)
149 - hard disk emulation now supports ATA-6 (LBA48 addressing, UDMA modes)
150 - VMWare version 4 disk image support added (patch by Sharvil Nanavati)
152 - initial support for the PIIX4 ACPI controller
154 - added support for 3-button mouse with Mousesystems protocol
156 - experimental USB device change support added
157 - rewrite of the existing USB devices code
158 - new USB devices 'disk' and 'tablet' (ported from the Qemu project)
160 - Bochs internal debugger
161 - fixed broken debugger "rc file" option (execute debugger command from file)
162 - implementation of a gui frontend ("windebug") for win32 started
163 - gdbstub now accepts connection from any host
164 - several documentation updates
165 - a lot of disasm and internal debugger x86_64 support fixes
167 - Configuration interface
168 - fixes and improvements to the save state dialog handling
171 - text mode color handling improved in some guis
172 - win32 fullscreen mode (patch by John Comeau)
174 - System BIOS (Volker)
175 - 32-bit PM BIOS init code for ACPI, PCI, SMP and SMM (initial patches by
177 - PCI BIOS function "find class code" implemented
180 [1791000] 15h 8600h is reading the wrong stack frame by Sebastian
181 [1791016] rombios32.c, ram_probe(), BX_INFO missing value by Sebastian
182 [1786429] typo in bochsrc.5 by Sebastian
183 [1785204] Extend acpi_build_table_header to accept a revision number by Sebastian
184 [1766536] Partial Patch for Bug Report 1549873 by Ben Lunt
185 [1763578] ACPI Table Revision 0 -> 1
186 [1642490] implement alignment check and #AC exception by Stanislav Shwartsman
187 [1695652] [PATCH] .pcap pktlog and vnet PXE boot by Duane Voth
188 [1741153] Add expansion-ROM boot support to the ROMBIOS
189 [1734159] Implemented INT15h, fn 0xC2 (mouse), subfn 3, set resolution
190 [1712970] bios_printf %s fix
191 [1573297] PUSHA/POPA real mode fix by Stanislav Shwartsman
192 [1641816] partial support for non-DMA access to floppy by John Comeau
193 [1624032] shows where write outside of memory occurred by John Comeau
194 [1607793] allow fullscreen when app requests it by John Comeau
195 [1603013] Bugfix for major NOP problem on x64 by mvysin
196 [1600178] Make tap and tuntap compile on OpenBSD by Jonathan Gray
197 [1149659] improve gdbstub network efficiency by Avi Kivity
198 [1554502] Trivial FPU exception handling fix
200 - these S.F. bugs were closed
201 [1316008] Double faults when it shouldn't - gcc 4.0.2
202 [1787289] broken ABI for redolog class when enable-compressed-hd
203 [1787500] tftp_send_optack not 64bit clean
204 [1264540] Security issue with Bochs website
205 [1767217] Debugger Faults including ud2
206 [1729822] Various security issues in io device emulation
207 [1675202] mptable hosed (bad entry count in header)
208 [1197141] 'make install' installs to bad location
209 [1157623] x86Solaris10 cannot recoginize ACPI RSD PTR
210 [1768254] large HDD in Bochs/bximage
211 [1496157] Windows Vista Beta2 dosn't boot
212 [1755915] Illegal Hard Disk Signature Output
213 [1717790] info gdt and info idt scrolls away, too long result
214 [1726640] Debugger displays incorrect segment for mov instruction
215 [1719156] Typo in misc_mem.cpp
216 [1715270] Debugger broken in/beyond 2.3
217 [1689107] v8086 mode priviledge check failed
218 [1704484] A few checks when CPU_LEVEL < 4
219 [1678395] Problem with zero sector...
220 [876990] SA-RTL OS fails on PIC configuration
221 [1673582] save/restore didn't restore simulation correctly
222 [1586662] EDD int 13h bug, modify eax
223 [666618] POP_A Panic in DOS EMU
224 [1001485] panic: not enough bytes on stack
225 [1667336] delay times an order of magnitude slow
226 [1665601] crash disassembling bootcode
227 [1657065] CVS sources won't compile
228 [1653805] bochs's gdbstub uses incorrect protocol
229 [1640737] ASM sti command frezzes guest OS
230 [1636439] latest CVS sources don't compile under Cygwin
231 [1634357] disasm incorrect (no sign ext) displacement in 64-bit mode
232 [1376453] pcidev segfaults bochs
233 [1180890] IOAPIC in BOCHS - WinXP 64 in MP version
234 [1597528] 2.3 fails to compile on amd64
235 [1526255] FLD1 broken when compaling with gcc 4.0.x
236 [1597451] eth_fbsd is broken under FreeBSD
237 [1571949] Bochs will not compile under Solaris
238 [1500216] Bochs fails to boot BeOs CD
239 [1458339] bochs-2.2.6 WinXP Binary ACPI error installing FreeBSD 6.0
240 [1440011] patches needed for FreeBSD 6.0 to compile Bochs
241 [431674] some devices don't have a prefix
242 [458150] QNX demo disk crashes with new pit
243 [818322] Bochs 2.1 cvs: OS/2 - read verify on non disk
244 [906840] KBD: bogus scan codes generated in set 3
245 [1005053] No keyboard codes translation
246 [1109374] Problem with Scancodeset 2
247 [1572345] Bochs won't continue
248 [1568153] Bochs looks for (and loads?) unspecified display libraries
249 [1563462] Errors in /iodev/harddrv.h
250 [1562172] TLB_init() fails to initialize priv_check array if USE_TLB 0
251 [1385303] debugger crashes after panic
252 [1438227] crc.cpp missing in bx_debug version 2.2.6
253 [1501825] debugger crashes on to high input
254 [1420959] Memory leak + buffer overflow in Bochs debugger
255 [1553289] Error in Dis-assembler
256 [542464] I cannot use FLAT
257 [1548270] Bochs won't die with its pseudo terminal
258 [1545588] roundAndPackFloatx80 does not detect round up correctly
260 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
261 Changes in 2.3 (August 27, 2006):
264 - limited save/restore support added (config + log options, hardware state)
265 - configuration parameter handling rewritten to a parameter tree
266 - lots of cpu and internal debugger fixes
267 - hard disk geometry autodetection now supported by most of the image types
268 - hard disk emulation now supports ATA-3 (multiple sector transfers)
269 - VBE memory size increased to 8MB and several VGA/VBE fixes
270 - updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.6a
272 Detailed change log :
274 - CPU and internal debugger fixes
275 - Fixed bug in FSTENV instruction (Stanislav Shwartsman)
276 - Recognize #XF exception (19) when SSE is enabled
277 - Fixed bug in PSRAW/PSRAD MMX and SSE instructions
278 - Save and restore RIP/RSP only for FAULT-type exceptions, not for traps
279 - Correctly decode, disassemble and execute multi-byte NOP '0F F1' opcode
280 - Raise A20 line after system reset (Stanislav Shwartsman)
281 - Implemented SMI and NMI delivery (APIC) and handling in CPU (Stanislav)
282 - Experimental implementation of System Management Mode (Stanislav)
283 - Added emulation of SSE3E instructions (Stanislav Shwarstman)
284 - Save and restore FPU opcode, FIP and FDP in FXSAVE/FRSTOR instructions
285 - Fixed bug in MOVD_EdVd opcode (always generated #UD exception)
286 - Fixed critical issue, Bochs was not supporting > 16 bit LDT.LIMIT values
287 - Many fixes in Bochs internal debugger and disassembler
290 - Fixed SYSRET instruction implementation
291 - Fixed bug in CALL/JMP far through 64-bit callgate in x86-64 mode
292 - Correctly decode, disassemble and execute 'XCHG R8, rAX' instruction
293 - Correctly decode and execute 'BSWAP R8-R15' instructions
294 - Fixed ENTER and LEAVE instructions in x86-64 mode (Stanislav)
295 - Fixed CR4 exception condition (No Name)
296 - Fixed x86 debugger to support x86-64 mode (Stanislav)
299 - Support for Dual Core and Intel(R) HyperThreading Technology. Now you
300 could choose amount of cores per processor and amount of HT threads per
301 core from .bochsrc for SMP simulation (Stanislav Shwartsman)
302 - Allow to control SMP quantum value through .bochsrc CPU
303 option parameter. Previous Bochs versions used hardcoded quantum=5
305 - Fixed interrupt priority bug in service_local_apic()
306 - Fixed again reading of APIC IRR/ISR/TMR registers. Finally it becomes
309 - Configure and compile
310 - Moved configure time --enable-reset-on-triple-fault option to runtime,
311 the 'cpu' option in .bochsrc is extended and the old configure option
312 is deprecated (Stanislav Shwartsman)
313 - Removed --enable-pni configure option, to compile with PNI use
314 --enable-sse=3 instead (Stanislav Shwartsman)
315 - enable SEP (SYSENTER/SYSEXIT) support by default for Penitum II+
316 processor emulation (i.e. if cpu-level >= 6 and MMX is enabled)
319 - Limited save/restore support added. The state of CPU, memory and all
320 devices can be saved now (state of harddisk images not handled yet).
321 - Fixed several memory leaks
323 - configuration interface
324 - Configuration parameter handling rewritten to a parameter tree. This is
325 required for dynamic menus/dialogs, user-defined options and save/restore.
326 - Support for user-defined bochsrc options added
327 - help support at the parameter prompt in textconfig added
329 - I/O devices (Volker)
331 - partial sector transfers fixed
333 - several fixes to the IDE register behaviour (e.g. in case of a channel
334 with only one drive connected)
335 - fixed data alignment of 'growing' hard drive images (sharing images
336 between Windows and Linux now possible)
337 - disk geometry autodetection now supported by most of the image types
338 (unsupported: external, dll and compressed modes)
339 - multi sector read/write commands implemented
340 - hard disk now reporting ATA-3 supported
341 - ATAPI 'inquiry' now returns a unique device name
343 - reset sent to keyboard has no effect on the 8042 (scancode translation)
345 - forward PIRQ register changes to the I/O APIC (if present)
346 - attempt to fix and update the emulation part of 'pcidev' (untested)
348 - VBE memory size increased to 8MB and several VBE fixes
349 - VGA memory read access fixed (bit plane access and read mode)
350 - VGA memory is now a part of the common video memory
352 - System BIOS (Volker)
353 - enable interrupts before executing INT 19h
354 - fixed ATA device detection in case of one drive only connected to controller
355 - improved INT 15h function AX=E820h
356 - real mode PCI BIOS now returns IRQ routing information (function 0Eh)
357 - keyboard LED flags handling fixed and improved
358 - fixed handling of extended keys in INT 09h
359 - Updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.6a
362 [1340111] fixes and updates to usb support by Ben Lunt
363 [1539420] minor addition to pci_usb code by Ben Lunt
364 [1455958] call/jmp through call gate in 64-bit mode
365 [1433107] PATCH: fix compile with wxwindows 2.6 (unicode / utf8) by jwrdegoede
366 [1386671] Combined dual core and hyper-threading patch
368 - these S.F. bugs were closed
369 [833927] TTD: System Error TNT.40025: Unexpected processor exception
370 [789230] Sending code that shows lock up when setting idt
371 [909670] Problems with Symantec Ghost
372 [1540241] include missing in osdep.cc
373 [1539373] Incorrect disasm for "mov moffset,bla" in 64bit
374 [1538419] incorrect disassembly of [rip+disp] with rex.b
375 [1535432] shift+cursor key maps to a digit
376 [1504891] Knoopix 5.0.1 error
377 [1424355] bochs-2.2.6 ata failure in windoze 98se
378 [1533979] wrong disassembly of IN instruction
379 [620059] paste won't stop
380 [1164904] status bar doesn't show num/caps/scroll lock status
381 [1061720] ATA Support level for HD
382 [1522196] Broken CHANGES link in main page
383 [1438415] crash if screen scrolled downwards
384 [778441] Shouldn't interrupts be enable after BIOS?
385 [1514949] I got a problem with the 8253 timer
386 [1513544] disasm of 0xec (in AL,DX) returns ilen of 2 instead of 1
387 [1508947] APIC interrupt priority checking and interrupt delivery
388 [766286] Debugger halts after any GPF exception
389 [639143] va_list is not a pointer on linuxppc
390 [1501815] debugger examines memory over page-boundary wrong
391 [1503978] movsb/w/d doesn't work when direction is stored
392 [1499405] WinPCap has changed URL hosting
393 [1498519] APIC IRR bits not set while interrupts disabled
394 [1498193] Bochs segfaults on LTR instruction
395 [787140] Guest2HostTLB optimization bug
396 [1492070] instrument stop
397 [1487772] No SEP on P4
398 [1488335] Growing hard disk images severe interoperability errors!
399 [1076312] Shadow RAM and TLB
400 [1282249] The real i440FX chipset Award bios hangs
401 [1479763] mistake "mov ax,[es:di]" for "mov ax,[ds:di]"
402 [1453575] Misconfigured floppy DMA transfers do not terminate.
403 [1460068] Incorrect handling for the Options Menu Item
404 [910203] bochs-2.1.1 wx.lo failed
405 [1438654] PANIC when trying to run install-amd64-minimal-2005.0.iso
406 [1458320] compile hdimage.h fails
407 [1455880] bochs-2.2.6,2: make error on FreeBSD
408 [696890] Network wouldn't run under W2k hosting MSDOS
409 [673391] SMP timer problems
410 [1291059] wxWindows GUI on non-windows/configure issue
411 [1356450] bochs 2.2.1 errors-omittions
412 [1178017] Win98 guest cannot receive network packets from host
413 [1076315] a20_mask after restarting
414 [1436323] real hw does not panic when bad Ib in CMPSS_VssWssIb
415 [1435269] cdrom_amigaos is not compilable
416 [1433314] disasm issues
417 [1170614] relative jumps/calls wrong in debugger
418 [758121] user might get confused when interrupt handler invoked
419 [1170622] You cannot toggle OFF "show" flags
420 [1406387] JMP instruction should display absolute address
421 [1428813] PANIC: ROM address space out of range
422 [1426288] DR-DOSs EMM386 problem
423 [1412036] Bochs cannot recognize PCI NIC correctly
424 [435115] dbg: modebp broken and no docs
425 [1419366] disasm cs:eip does not work anymore
426 [1419393] SSE's #XF exception -> "exception(19): bad vector"
427 [1419429] disassembly of "260f6f00" show DS: instead of ES: prefix
428 [1417583] Interrupt behaviour changed from 2.2.1 to 2.2.5
429 [1418281] 'push' (6A) incorrectly disassembled
430 [1417791] FLDENV generating exception when real hw does not.
431 [1264583] OS/2 1.1 doesn't run
433 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
434 Changes in 2.2.6 (January 29, 2006):
436 - First major SMP release !
437 - several APIC and I/O APIC fixes make SMP Bochs booting Windows NT4.0
438 or Knoppix 4.0.2 without noapic kernel option in SMP configuration.
439 - critical APIC timer bug fixed
440 - obsolete SMP BIOS images removed (MP tables created dynamicaly)
441 - determine number of processors in SMP configuration through .bochsrc
442 new .bochsrc option 'CPU' allows to choose number of processors to emulate
443 - new configure option --enable-smp to configure Bochs for SMP support,
444 the old --enable-processors=N option is deprecated
445 - CPU and internal debugger fixes
446 - enabled #PCE bit in CR4 register, previosly setting of this bit
447 generated #GP(0) fault
448 - enabled LAHF/SAHF instructions in x86-64 mode
449 - fixed bug in PMULUDQ SSE2 instruction
450 - fixes in Bochs debugger
451 - Configure and compile
452 - enable VME (virtual 8086 mode extensions) by default if cpu-level >= 5
453 - enable Bochs disassembler by default for all configurations
454 - win32 installer script improvements
455 - ips parameter moved to new 'CPU' option
456 - show IPS value in status bar if BX_SHOW_IPS is enabled
458 - several fixes in the hard drive, keyboard, timer, usb and vga code
459 - new user button shortcut "bksl" (backslash)
460 - updated Bochs instrumentation examples
461 - user and development documentation improved
463 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
464 Changes in 2.2.5 (December 30, 2005):
467 - added virtual 8086 mode extensions (VME) implementation
468 - several fixes/improvements in x86-64 emulation, debugger and disassembler
469 - new serial mode 'socket' connects a network socket
470 - IDE busmaster DMA feature for harddisks and cdroms completed and enabled
471 - many improvements in Bochs emulated I/O devices (e.g. floppy, cdrom)
472 - Updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.5d
474 Detailed change log :
477 - fixed XMM registers restore in FXRSTOR instruction (Andrej Palkovsky)
478 - print registers dump to the log if tripple fault occured
479 - fixed PANIC in LTR instruction (Stanislav)
480 - added virtual 8086 mode extensions (VME) implementation, to enable
481 configure with --enable-vme (Stanislav)
482 - flush caches and TLBs when executing WBINVD and INVD instructions
483 - do not modify segment limit and AR bytes when modifying segment
484 register in real mode (support for unreal mode)
485 - fixed init/reset values for LDTR and TR registers
486 - reimplemented hardware task switching mechanism (Stanislav)
487 - generate #GP(0) when fetching instruction cross segment boundary
489 - CPU (x86-64) (Stanislav Shwartsman)
490 - implemented call_far/ret_far/jmp_far instructions in long mode
491 - fixed IRET operation in long mode
492 - fixed bug prevented setting of NXE/FFXSR bits in MSR.EFER register
493 - implemented RDTSCP instruction
494 - do not check CS.limit when prefetching instructions in long mode
495 - fixed masked write instructions (MASKMOVQ/MASKMOVDQU) in long mode
496 - fetchdecode fixes for x86-64
499 - Fixed bug in changing local APIC id (Stanislav)
500 - Fixed reading of IRR/ISR/TMR registers (patch by wmrieker)
501 - Implemented spurious interrupt register (Stanislav, patch by wmrieker)
502 - Fixed interrupt delivery bug (anonymous #SF patch)
503 - Correctly implemented ESR APIC register (Stanislav)
506 - Fixed bug in bochs debugger caused breakpoints doesn't fire sometimes
508 - watchpoints in device memory fixed (Nickolai Zeldovich)
509 - new debug interface to access Bochs CPU general purpose registers
510 with support for x86-64
512 - Disassembler (Stanislav Shwartsman)
513 - Fixed disassembly for FCOMI/FUCOMI instructions
514 - Full x86-64 support in disassembler. The disassembler module extended
515 to support x86-64 extensions. Still limited by Bochs debugger which
516 is not supporting x86-64 at all ;(
518 - I/O devices (Volker)
520 - memory management prepared for large BIOS images (up to 512k)
521 - slowdown timer sleep rate fixed (now using 1 msec on all platforms)
522 - some device specific parameter handlers moved into the device code
524 - new serial mode 'socket' connects a network socket (#SF patch by Andrew Backer)
526 - assign a unique serial number to each drive (fixes harddrive detection
527 problems with Linux kernels 2.6.x: "ignoring undecoded slave")
528 - geometry autodetection for 'flat' hard disk images added. Works with
529 images created with bximage (heads = 16, sectors per track = 63)
530 - ATAPI command 'read cd' implemented, some other commands improved
531 - cdrom read block function now tries up to 3 times before giving up
532 - emulation of raw cdrom reads added, some other lowlevel cdrom fixes
533 - IDE busmaster DMA feature for harddisks and cdroms completed and enabled
534 - disk image size limit changed from 32 to 127 GB
535 - split ATA/ATAPI emulation code and image handling code
537 - fixes for OS/2 (patch by Robin Kay)
538 - disk change line behaviour fixed (initial patch by Ben Lunt)
539 - end-of-track (EOT) condition handling implemented
540 - more accurate timing for read/write data and format track commands using
541 a motor speed of 300 RPM
542 - timing of recalibrate and seek commands now depends on the step rate,
543 date rate and the steps to do
544 - floppy controller type changed to 82077AA
546 - RTC 12-hour and binary mode implemented
547 - number of CMOS registers changed from 64 to 128
548 - bochsrc option 'cmosimage' improved
549 - save cmos image on exit if enabled
551 - simple speaker support for OS X added (patch by brianonn@telus.net)
553 - BeOS boot failure fix in the PCI IDE code
554 - don't register i/o and memory regions during PCI probe
556 - memory allocation for vga extensions fixed
558 - some bugfixes by Ben Lunt (mouse and keypad are usable now)
560 - VDE networking module now enabled on Linux
564 - new syntax for the userbutton shortcut string and more keys supported
566 - fixed keycode generation for right alt/ctrl/shift keys
567 - runtime dialog is now a property sheet
569 - simple dialog boxes for the "ask" and "user shortcut" feature implemented
570 - Slovenian keymap added (contributed by Mitja Ursic)
572 - configuration interface
573 - ask dialog is now enabled by default for win32, wx and x display libraries
574 - bochsrc option floppy_command_delay is obsolete now (floppy timing now based
576 - floppy image size detection now available in the whole config interface
577 - some device specific parameter handlers moved into the device code
578 - calculate BIOS ROM start address from image if not specified
580 - System BIOS (Volker)
581 - PCI i/o and memory base address initialization added
582 - several keyboard interrupt handler fixes (e.g. patch by japheth)
583 - several floppy fixes (e.g. OS/2 works with patch by Robin Kay)
584 - some more APM functions added
585 - Updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.5d
586 - generate SMP specific tables dynamicly by the Bochs memory init code
589 [1389776] Disk sizes over 64 Gbytes by Andrzej Zaborowski
590 [1359162] disasm support for x86-64 by Stanislav Shwartsman
591 [857235] task priority and other APIC bugs, etc by wmrieker
592 [1359011] build breaks for 386 + debugger + disasm by shirokuma
593 [1352761] Infinite loop when trying to debug a triple exception
594 [1311170] small APIC bug fix (interrupt sent to the wrong CPU)
595 [1309763] Watchpoints don't work in device memory by Nickolai Zeldovich
596 [1294930] change line status on floppy by Ben Lunt
597 [1282033] SSE FXRESTORE not working correctly by Ondrej Palkovsky
598 [816979] wget generalizations by Lyndon Nerenberg
599 [1214886] No more pageWriteStamp / unified icache by H. Johansson
600 [1107945] com->socket redirection support by Andrew Backer
602 - these S.F. bugs were closed
603 [669180] win95 install : unknown SET FEATURES subcommand 0x03
604 [1346692] bochs 2.2.1 VGA BIOS error
605 [1354963] floppy in KolibriOS
606 [1378204] error: bochs-2.2.1, --enable-sb16, --disable-gameport
607 [1368412] VDE problems in BOCHS
608 [533446] CPU and APIC devices appear twice
609 [1000796] bximage fails to create image of specified size
610 [1170793] Quarterdeck QEMM doesn't work
611 [923704] Multiple opcode prefixes don't reflect Trap 13
612 [1166392] DocBook/documentation issues
613 [1368239] broken grater than 4GB size of sparse type hd image
614 [1365830] i386 compile breaks on paging
615 [427550] Incomplete IRETD implementation
616 [1215081] MSVC workspace STILL not fixed
617 [736279] Jump to Task
618 [1356488] FD change fail & occur error
619 [957615] [CPU ] prefetch: RIP > CS.limit
620 [1353866] not booting linux-2.6.14
621 [1351667] load32bitOSImage does not work with --enable-x86-debugger
622 [1217476] Incorrect (?) handling of segment registers in real mode
623 [1184711] OS2 DOS crash [2.2.pre2]
624 [624330] support for disks > 32GiB
625 [1348368] bochs 2.2.1 bximage error
626 [1342081] Configuration Menu option failed
627 [1138616] OS/2 Warp 4 hangs when booting
628 [1049840] mouse and video conflict
629 [1164570] Unable to perform Fedora Core 4 test 1 installation
630 [1183201] Windows 2000 (MSDN build 2150?) does not completely install
631 [1194284] Can't boot from CD-ROM (Windows NT)
632 [962969] Windows NT crashes while trying to intall them.
633 [1054594] WinXP install halts (redo)
634 [1153107] Windows XP fails with BSOD on 'vga'
635 [938518] Win XP installation fails
636 [645420] getHostMemAddr vetoed direct read
637 [1179985] MS XENIX: >>PANIC<< VGABIOS panic at vgabios.c, line 0
638 [1329600] WBINVD and INVD should flush caches and TLB
639 [638924] eliminate BX_USE_CONFIG_INTERFACE
640 [1048711] Funny behaviour with CTRL
641 [1288450] keyboard BIOS error
642 [1310706] Keyboard - about key SHIFT
643 [1295981] Ubuntu 5.04 Live-CD won't boot in Bochs
644 [879047] APIC timer behavior different before reset and after
645 [1188506] I still can't install the german Windows XP!
646 [1301847] Windows XP dosn't boot - FXRSTOR problem ?
647 [661259] does not boot QNX under WinX
648 [924412] Keyboard lock states all whacked
649 [681127] MIPSpro compiler (IRIX) is allergic to ^M
650 [1285923] BIOS keyboard handler
651 [516639] ATA controller revisited...
652 [657918] does not boot BeOS under WinX
653 [649245] BeOS CD locks halfway on boot
654 [1094385] Attachment for bug 1090339 (beos failure)
655 [1183196] BeOS 4.5 developer CD does not install
656 [1090339] BeOS fails to boot
657 [639484] panics when int 13 is called
658 [711701] divide by zero
659 [704295] ATAPI/BIOS call missing
660 [682856] hard drive problems
661 [627691] Cursor keys problem
662 [588011] keyboard not working
663 [542260] os/2 warp crashes with floppy handling
664 [1273878] SB16 doesn't work in pure DOS
665 [542254] OS/2 FDC driver dies
666 [1099610] Windows 98 SE Does not install
667 [875479] cr3 problem on task switch
668 [731423] NE2000 causing PANIC on Win2K detection
669 [1156155] bochs fails to boot plan9 iso
670 [1251979] --enable-cpu-level=3 should assume --without-fpu
671 [1257538] Interupt 15h 83h - set wait event interval
672 [658396] Panic for DR DOS emm386
673 [679339] /? doesn't divulge Bochs command-line syntax
674 [1167016] call/jump/return_protected doesn't support x86-64
675 [1252432] Mac OS X compile bug
676 [881442] Bochs 2.1 PANIC when loading DOS Turbo Pascal protected mode
677 [1249324] Boch2.2.1 Buffer Overfollow in void bx_local_apic_c::init ()
678 [1197144] 'make install' has dependency on wget
679 [1079595] LTR:386TSS: loading tr.limit < 103
680 [1244070] Compilation Error in gui/rfb.cc
681 [761707] CPU error when trying to start Privateer
682 [517281] Crash running Privateer in DOS...
684 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
685 Changes in 2.2.1 (July 8, 2005):
687 - Fixed several compilation warnings and errors for different platforms (Volker)
688 - Fixed FPU tag word restore in FXRSTOR instruction (Stanislav)
689 - Added missing scancodes for F11 and F12 to BIOS translation table (Volker)
690 - Bochs disassembler bugfixes (h.johansson)
691 - About 5% emulation speed improvement (h.johansson)
692 - Handle writing of zero to APIC timer initial count register (Stanislav)
693 - Enable Idle-Hack for 'TERM' GUI (h.johansson)
694 - Reduced overhead of BX_SHOW_IPS option to minimum. Now every simulation
695 could run with --enable-show-ips without significant performance
697 - Fixed pcipnic register access (Volker)
698 - Limited write support for TFTP server in 'vnet' networking module added (Volker)
699 - Changed some timing defaults to more useful values (Volker)
700 - WinXP/2003 style common controls now supported (Vitaly Vorobyov)
701 - Updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.5c (Volker)
702 - Added new BX_INSTR_HLT callback to instrumentation (Stanislav)
704 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
705 Changes in 2.2 (May 28, 2005):
708 - New floating point emulator based on SoftFloat floating point
710 - improved x86-64 emulation
711 - Cirrus SVGA card emulation added
712 - status bar with indicators for keyboard, floppy, cdrom and disk (gui dependant)
713 - many improvements in Bochs emulated I/O devices (e.g. PCI subsystem)
715 Detailed change log :
718 - fixes for booting OS/2 by Dmitri Froloff
719 - fixed v8086 priveleged instruction processing bug (was also reported
720 by LightCone Aug 7 2003)
721 - exception process bug (was reported by Diego Henriquez Sat Nov 15
723 - segment validation with IRET instruction
724 - CS segment not present exception processing with IRET
725 - several fixes by Kevin Lawton
726 - add MSVC host asm instructions (patch by suzu)
727 - fixed bug in HADDPD/HSUBPD (SSE3) instructions
728 - fixed bug in float to integer SSE/SSE2 convert instructions
729 - fixed BCD instructions implementation
730 - execution speed improvements (sshwarts and psychosmur)
731 - fix MSR_APICBASE base address (Kangmo Kim, Christian Neubert)
732 - change BX_PANIC messages to BX_INFO when behaviour exactly
734 - EIP > CS.limit case should always cause #GP(0), even in real mode.
735 Fixed all jump, call and ret instructions for 16/32 modes
736 - fixed using invalid segment register for MOV instruction (h.johansson)
737 - fixed ET bit mismatch between CR0 and SMSW instruction
738 - fixed possible simulator #DIVZERO fault when executing IDIV instruction
739 - fixed undocumented flags handling for BTS, BTR, SHR, SHLD, MUL and IMUL
740 instructions (Stanislav Shwartsman)
741 - added missed #GP(0) exception when loading incorrect flags combination
742 to CR0 (Stanislav Shwartsman)
743 - in case of --enable-ignore-bad-msr enabled read ignored MSRs as zero
744 - enabled #DE, #TSD and #MCE bits in CR4 register, previosly setting
745 of one of these bits generated #GP(0) (Stanislav, Volker Ruppert)
746 - exceeding the instruction length limit of 15 bytes (this only can
747 occur when redundant prefixes are placed before an instruction)
748 generate #GP(0) (Stanislav Shwartsman)
749 - corrected PAE functionality
752 - fetchdecode fixes for x86-64 and 3DNow! (Stanislav)
753 - fixed CF flag handling for SHL instruction in x86-64 mode (Stanislav)
754 - implemented CR8 register (aliased to APIC.TPR[7:4]) (Stanislav)
755 - implemented NXE bit (No-Execute page protection) support (Stanislav)
756 - STOSQ instruction emulation fixed (Avi Kivity)
757 - allow null SS selector for MOV SS, POP SS, and LSS instructions
758 in long mode (Avi Kivity)
759 - ignore segment bases for all segments (except FS and GS) in long
761 - allow SYSENTER/SYSEXIT instructions together with x86-64 (Stanislav)
762 - canonical address checking for RIP (Stanislav)
764 - FPU (Stanislav Shwartsman)
765 - totally rewritten all FPU code based on softfloat library
766 - significantly improved accuracy of all floating point
768 - implemented all missed P6 and PNI floating point instructions.
769 - hundreds of bug fixes in FPU code.
772 ! Unmasked underflow/overflow should correct the result
773 by magic number for all operations, including float32
776 - APIC (Zwane Mwaikambo)
779 - Various interrupt delivery fixes
780 - Focus processor checking
784 - fixed MOV opcode 0x88, had exchanged the operands (h.johansson)
785 - fixed MOV opcode 0xA3, had wrong operand size (h.johansson)
786 - fixed BOUND opcode 0x62 (Stanislav)
787 - fixed CALLW opcode 0xFF /3 and JMPW opcode 0xFF /5 (Stanislav)
788 - fixed INS opcode 0x6D, had wrong operand size (Stanislav)
789 - fixed disassembly for repeatable instructions (Stanislav)
790 - fixed sign-extended immediate opcodes (Stanislav)
791 - fixed MOVSS/MOVSD instructions opcode names (Stanislav)
792 - fixed NEG instruction opcode name (Stanislav)
793 - fixed CMPXCHG8B instruction, had wrong operand size (Stanislav)
794 - fixed floating point instructions operands (Stanislav)
795 - experimental support of AT&T syntax in disassembler (Stanislav)
799 - handle cpu reset through port 0x92
800 - new memory handler API for PCI i/o and memory handling (Frank Cornelis)
801 - speaker emulation for Linux (David N. Welton) and Win32 (Volker Ruppert) added
803 - PCI slot configuration added for 5 slots (Volker)
804 - PCI irq routing, irq sharing and level sensitive irq mode implemented
805 - ne2k device appears as a Realtec 8029 NIC if connected to a PCI slot
806 - PCI IDE controller dummy device added
807 - PCI host device mapping for Linux (Frank Cornelis)
808 - PCI Pseudo-NIC emulation (Michael Brown)
810 - multiple serial port support added (4 ports now available)
811 - partial raw serial support on win32 (transmit data)
812 - serial port i/o mode option added (modes: null, file, term, raw, mouse)
814 - multiple parallel port support added (2 ports now available)
816 - serial mouse support (Volker)
817 - PS/2 and serial wheel mouse support (Ben Lunt)
819 - USB mouse and keypad support (Ben Lunt)
820 - config option to specify devices connected to USB ports
822 - VBE 8 bit DAC support added
823 - VBE memory now registered using DEV_register_memory_handlers()
824 - CL-GD 54xx SVGA emulation added (Makoto Suzuki)
825 - vga extension option added (choices: vbe, cirrus, none) (Volker)
827 - raw floppy access now works on Win9x host (Ben Lunt)
829 - MacOSX sound support (Brian Huffman)
831 - new: 'eth_vnet' simulates ARP, DHCP, ICMP-echo and read-only TFTP
833 - new: 'eth_vde' for Virtual Distributed Ethernet (Renzo Davoli)
836 - turn floppy motor off 2 seconds after last read/write/recalibrate command
838 - int13_cdrom / 32 bit register update fixes for FreeBSD cdrom boot
840 - APM and system shutdown support (Fabrice Bellard)
841 - checksum calculation for expansion ROMs
842 - extended floppy parameter table (Mike Nordell, Derek Favcus)
843 - PCI IRQ initialisation added
844 - boot sequence with up to 3 boot devices added
847 - status bar with indicators for cdrom, floppy, harddisk and keyboard added
848 (done in rfb, sdl, win32, wx and x)
849 - 3rd (middle) mouse button now supported (rfb, sdl, win32, wx, x)
850 - mouse wheel support (sdl, win32, x)
851 - CTRL key + middle mouse button now used to toggle the mouse capture mode
853 - text mode split screen feature added (sdl, win32, wx, x)
854 - new gui function returns the display library capabilities (xres, yres, bpp)
855 for the Bochs VBE support
856 - display library specific options added - currently supported:
857 rfb: timeout (time to wait for client connection)
858 sdl: fullscreen (startup in fullscreen mode)
859 win32: legacyF12 (use F12 to toggle mouse)
860 - new graphics update API added (used by svga_cirrus) (Robin Kay)
862 - configuration interface
863 - win32: gui runtime dialogs replace textconfig runtime dialogs
864 - set default IPS to 10000000 in .bochsrc sample
865 - SB16 options dmatimer and loglevel now available at runtime
867 - configure script / compile
868 - --enable-ignore-bad-msr (ignore bad MSR references) option is enabled
870 - --enable-mmx enabled by default only if cpu-level >= 5
871 - --enable-4meg-pages will be enabled by default if cpu-level >= 5
872 - fixes for Solaris SunPro (Robin Kay)
873 - --enable-pni option added
874 - --enable-show-ips option added, enable Instruction Per Second counter
876 - autodetection for lowlevel sound support added
879 - a bunch of updates in user and documentation docs (Alexander Schuch)
882 [894595] MSR_APICBASE always returns APIC ADDRESS 0 by Kangmo Kim
883 [907163] ctrl_xfer8 clean/speed up
884 [907161] clean/speed up of io.cc
885 [899972] data xfer performance patch V 2.0.4
886 [904549] imul gives incorrect result in long mode
887 [877510] amd64 fixes...
888 [903465] SEGV in iodev/ne2k.cc line 1211 on Alpha architecture by Christian Lestrade
889 [903332] copy the bximage result to clipboard, etc by Lukewarm
890 [950905] Do not PANIC on rare, bad input from user-mode by h.johansson
891 [924428] ET bit mismatch between CR0 and MSW
892 [869822] a real SVGA implementation by m_suzu
893 [867045] fix for compiler errors on VC++ by m_suzu
894 [838601] support for the over 2GB disk size with MSVC++
895 [874816] local ARP/ping/DHCP simulator by m_suzu
896 [976066] Keyboard: Get controller version by Ben Lunt
897 [832330] ROMBIOS improvement (reduce stack consumption, etc.)
898 [977900] READ_CDROM_TOC and base address by Ben Lunt
899 [961665] WinXP patch to read physical CDROM's TOC by Ben Lunt
900 [978793] CDROM_SENSE_MODE medium_type by Ben Lunt
901 [615457] gif to png migration
902 [1021767] Portability in sb16ctrl.c by Robert Millan
903 [690400] gzip is confused by GZIP variable in Makefile
904 [567595] guess floppy image size from image file length by Tal Benavidor
905 [888426] bochsrc to make vnet useful by m_suzu
906 [1021758] GNU/k*BSD host support by Robert Millan
907 [969967] int 15/ah=87h clearing cr0 by Ben Lunt
908 [1048327] Russian Keymap by Dmitry Soshnikov
909 [851332] DESTDIR support for install_dlx by Ville Skyttä
910 [970929] gdbstub support for MinGW tool chains by Muranaka Masaki
911 [1021740] Turn gdb stub into a runtime option by Charles Duffy
912 [1063329] RFB key press/release bug fix by Remko van der Vossen
913 [1079240] Wheel Mouse by Ben Lunt
914 [1087537] Fix for Win9x CD boot by lukewarm
915 [1083218] Start of wheel for USB #2 by Ben Lunt
916 [1098480] bochsrc: fixed floppya example by Alexander Schuch (ci-dev)
917 [1094407] configure.in: changed wxWindows to wxWidgets by Alexander Schuch
918 [1092058] serial.cc debug output cleanup by Ben Lunt
919 [1101165] APIC base address by Christian Neubert (flashburn)
920 [1093796] Fix for bug #1093786 (Nigel Horne)
921 [1082584] The start of Bus mice and USB mice by Ben Lunt
922 [1104695] msvc6 compatibility update (Royce Mitchell III)
923 [1059199] VGA text font bug fix (Anonymous)
924 [1108001] Null pointer on bx_atexit() (Ben Lunt)
925 [1112093] Fixed mouse cursor remain area drawing (Anonymous)
926 [1114826] Fix PCIBIOS (Destruction prevention of esi and edi)
927 [1095473] Reading from a CDRW (Fixed) by Ben Lunt
928 [1123895] x86-64 gdb/debugger fixes by Avi Kivity
929 [1145423] stosq simulation bugfix by Avi Kivity
930 [1151012] allow null ss on x86-64 by Avi Kivity
931 [1153327] ignore segment bases in x86-64 by Avi Kivity
932 [1153511] Fixed broken screen update (VBE)
933 [1152808] use 'install' instead of 'cp' during installation by Avi Kivity
934 [1159626] bugfix [1156776] keyboard scanmode fault by Rene Kootstra
935 [843328] PATCH: support for Flat-style ToolBar with Win32GUI
936 [1198308] PATCH: fix incorrect moving mouse cursor when wheel used
937 [1200515] add TFTP server to vnet & ipv4 bug fix by easeway
938 [1203305] tuntap incompatibility by Jan Kratochvil
940 - SF patches partially applied
941 [896733] Lazy flags, for more instructions, only 1 src op
942 [1005422] Improve mouse cursol Grub when 2 buttons-mouse use (WIN32)
943 (TODO: improved japanese keyboard support)
946 - patch.rombios.markevich (Start/Stop Wait Timer) (Kory Markevich)
947 - patch.apic-zwane (APIC fixes) (Zwane Mwaikambo)
948 - patch.v8086-exception.lightcone (LightCone)
950 - these S.F. bugs were closed
951 #957660 >>PANIC<< APIC: R(curr timer count): delta < initial
952 #1192654 60 x 90 text not quite right...
953 #1189097 "configure --with-sdl --with-rfb" doesn't compile
954 #1188980 Crash on XP when break into debugger
955 #1186693 Improving quality of ./configure --help
956 #1185245 Errors Making Bochs with Mingw32
957 #1185289 PSE is not enabled by default on Pentium
958 #1170620 info cpu scrolls away, is too long
959 #1157998 ips shown even when waiting for input
960 #663108 APIC Timer Bug
961 #831750 bochs unlike real PC in paging
962 #1182698 PAE support doesn't work
963 #954400 debugger causes segfaults when gcc 3.4.0 is used
964 #1171312 Possible SMP problem with ICACHE pageWriteStamp
965 #1179964 PANIC: RIP>CS.limit when jumping to longmode
966 #1171067 configure fails to add -lpthread
967 #1171065 Term UI needs -lncurses
968 #1171061 SDL GUI startup failure
969 #1022056 win32 error build debug version..c2146
970 #957190 error while attempting to compile sb16.cc
971 #804797 Debugger: visualization problem (jmp)
972 #675523 2.0.1 doesn't run on W2K?
973 #1167358 When using 5430PCI in DR-DOS Bochs would panic with a PUSHAD
974 #1164654 Bochs VBE bios causing exception 0B in Windows 95 (SVGA bios)
975 #1162983 conflicts which configure could detect
976 #1164536 Windows 95 B crashes during install
977 #526978 cygwin: in an rxvt, stdout is flaky
978 #542303 >>PANIC<< call_protected: CS selector null
979 #859457 BRICKS game doesn't work
980 #1159639 text modes on address A0000-BFFFF are not handled properly
981 #1164225 define BX_SUPPORT_X86_64 0
983 #1156776 keyboard scanmode fault
984 #1162042 Duke Nukem 3D: >>PANIC<< iret: VM set on stack, CPL!=0
985 #1161945 ctrl_xfer32 compile/make error
986 #1157124 Bochs doesn't run with large amounts of memory in bochsrc
987 #1154266 weird INT handling in V86 mode
988 #1157051 default Bochs CVS doesn't work-out-of-the-box
989 #923954 enter() with level > 0, >>PANIC<< iret: return CS selector
990 #1098476 Privilege Problem after SYSEXIT
991 #1121734 Bochs crashes when shutting down Win95
992 #1099294 VESA for Win98 bogus
993 #1112836 PGE-Bit crashes Bochs
994 #947586 The specification difference in x86-64 emulation
995 #1117145 Push reset Button, APIC0 Error occur
996 #1123043 fpu stack pointer changed *despite* fault occured (e.g. #pf)
997 #1122066 PANIC: iret: IP > descriptor limit when installing os/2 warp
998 #809574 rm -f segfaults
999 #593952 SuSE rm segfaults
1000 #929783 floppy not recogniced since 2.1
1001 #1099298 SB16 for Win98 Bogus
1002 #1079483 Reading from a CDRW
1003 #549793 flaw in interrupt gate handling(exception.cc)
1005 #805479 Booting from disk causes illegal instruction warnings
1006 #909677 pc-speaker doesn't work
1007 #831751 behaviour unrealistic
1008 #661213 CR4.TSD is broken
1009 #685508 PANIC: prefetch: RIP > CS.limit
1010 #1037923 Non-executable page support missed (NX bit, x86-64)
1011 #1106530 wrong disassemble result
1012 #1105208 drive order for boot gets saved wrong
1013 #661060 Problem with Win98SE
1014 #837377 Norton Ghost don't boot
1015 #876689 Unknown register 0x17 [CPU] / WIN98SE
1016 #947282 Bochs segfault
1017 #963317 Persistent Win98SE
1018 #1101168 APIC base address change
1019 #680737 panic when installing winme
1020 #1097187 Install FC3 on bochs-win failed
1021 #875461 vgabios-lgpl should be default
1022 #594797 Bochs segfaults
1023 #602994 bochs breaks boot kernel
1024 #571539 FreeBSD Install from CD Fails
1025 #774257 Device doesn't work under W98
1026 #759228 Installing Suse 8.2 in Bochs on WinME
1027 #792561 cant boot freebsd 5.1 from cdrom
1028 #804004 Live cd will halt on boot..
1029 #956173 FreeBSD won't boot iso install images in Bochs v2.1 or 2.2.
1030 #864401 >>PANIC<< jmp_ev: IP out of CS limits!
1031 #853831 Error on int 15h
1032 #1094150 DR-DOS 7.03: panics when using multitasker
1033 #655592 win98 hardwaredetection
1034 #1093786 Solaris 9 installation CD fails
1035 #959585 USB UHCI IO-Device
1036 #963314 Redhat Fedora Installer Kernel Panic and Crash
1037 #1086920 Bochs (cvs) doesn't compile on FreeBSD 5
1038 #879050 Bochs reports enabled APIC without support
1039 #1071199 dBaseII cause prefetch: RIP > CS limit
1040 #1070812 typecast error while compiling wx.cc
1041 #1068786 FSINCOS Cos value wrong at 90 degrees
1042 #675248 Panic: EIP > limit on win98 install
1043 #829793 [CPU ] prefetch: RIP > CS.limit
1044 #1034059 >>PANIC<< prefetch: running in bogus memory
1045 #1067813 pbm fpu_proto.h:144 ebuild gentoo bochs 2.1.1
1046 #922034 bios not aliased at 0xFFFFF000, registers wrong after reset
1047 #912666 Configure fails on Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1
1048 #922038 Unexisting memory should read back as 0xFFFFFFFF
1050 #1057814 Shadow RAM not aligned
1051 #1057240 Invalid IRET32 implementation
1052 #809682 >> PANIC << : prefetch: RIP > CS.limit
1053 #618680 memory referencing problems
1054 #724262 A few things (Windows 2.03, Wolfenstein)
1055 #985375 Crash Mandrake 7.1
1056 #913418 compiler errors with --enable-external-debugger option
1057 #708847 CR8 access should not panic X86-64
1058 #1039499 Compile error pcipnic.cc (cygwin)
1059 #978024 compile against wxGTK-2.5.2 fails
1060 #639073 MacOSX: Networking not implemented
1061 #639074 MacOSX: Soundblaster not implemented
1062 #963264 Latest CVS --enable-pcidev fails to configue on YDL Linux
1063 #586282 Mac OS X, will not "make"
1064 #699532 CVS (as of 2003/03/07) cannot read disk images
1065 #639275 wrong more than 2GB size DVD-ROM
1066 #766020 info registers / dump_cpu get old eflags
1067 #655920 QuickBasic (qbx.exe) panics
1068 #676188 Error BX_MAX_DIRTY_PAGE_TABLE_MEGS
1069 #923821 LOCK not generating exceptions properly
1070 #1007747 Wrong configure?
1071 #1022577 show "call" command crashes bochs every time
1072 #681849 SuSE 8.1 Compile problem
1073 #660322 Install bochs 2.0 on SuSe 8,0
1074 #1022587 "Unrecognized args" message wrong after invalid show command
1075 #833118 TUN/TAP interface bug
1076 #1022178 tuntap module mangles incoming broadcast packets
1077 #1028682 Report incorrect disk parameters of floppy
1078 #1026234 make fails on Cygwin because of missing .exe extension
1079 #1026241 --enable-cpp needed for .conf.win32-cygwin
1080 #855323 BIOS Panic at rombios.c, line 1563
1081 #762773 ROM checksum is not checked in rom_scan_loop
1082 #657604 concat_image_t.lseek to byte -1378816 fa
1083 #800140 No AH=83h INT15h implemented
1084 #831965 Win32.zip BIOSes in wrong directory
1085 #873280 bximage crashes after createing "growing"
1086 #892223 bochsrc-sample.txt/vgaromimage option error
1087 #1014361 Bximage on WinXP won't create image
1088 #651510 bximage won't create larger than 2GB
1089 #759206 bximage fails on Win32 for hd images over 2Gb
1090 #759210 Bochs fails on image files over 2Gb on Win32
1091 #799785 bximage doesn't work
1092 #903345 Problem compiling harddrv.cc
1093 #933303 Bochs cannot lseek() HD images > 2GB on W32 platforms
1094 #888438 bximage crashes...(hacked fix included)
1095 #871720 bximage 2GB file size limit
1096 #930368 Can't create big hard drives (>2 GB)
1097 #912496 IDIV can cause simulator divide error
1098 #522111 Host os SIGILL, booting grub from hd
1099 #1005052 DMA Controller Model Problem
1100 #552939 Bochs window doesn't resize when win311
1101 #989478 I-Cache and undefined Instructions
1102 #661008 make install fails
1103 #845691 Workaround: Ne2k and Windows 2000 not working
1104 #923662 BIOS diskette motor countdown byte broken
1105 #848141 VGA problems running Scitech Display Driver on Win95
1106 #799370 Problem booting ReactOS 0.1.3
1107 #670143 No rule to make config.h
1108 #653444 with vbe/lgpl bios, scrn updates broken
1109 #655696 quickstart broken?
1111 #620853 Ne2000 ethernet card *NOT* supported
1113 #543476 Sound card does not work in Windows 95
1114 #529554 unsupported VBE features DISPI update
1115 #487316 Access violation on Win32
1116 #576253 RTC too fast
1117 #489748 io read from address 000003c0, len=2
1118 #656861 Gentoo Linux panics in VGA code
1119 #787184 Video BIOS's don't checksum correctly
1120 #988529 textconfig [Save options to] function output obsolete option
1121 #987293 Cannot accesss header/toolbar
1122 #988246 floppy read error
1123 #933199 speedup Bochs compilation 4x -> suggestion
1124 #979106 Incorrect disassembly table entry
1125 #658374 FPU incorrect emulation
1126 #706933 Problem with the F12-Key
1127 #477043 math_abort panic in RH 7.1
1128 #634371 Floating point problems
1129 #681138 // is not valid in C
1130 #643300 cpuid feature flag 15, cmov and fcmov
1131 #913697 missing division by 0 exeption in fpu emuation
1132 #923682 FSTENV/FINIT problems
1133 #923855 FPTAN doesn't work right with full NPX stack
1134 #924379 ET bit mismatch between CR0 and MSW
1135 #716116 Direct floppy access
1136 #962919 Mac: iodev/cdrom.cc disordered
1137 #954751 Two FPU.CPP in project
1138 #954359 Compile faile is 3dnow support is selected without SSE support
1139 #906412 FreeSCO error
1140 #942060 FDC Controller not conforming to specifications
1141 #938522 Win XP installation fails
1142 #923613 BOUND instruction exception handling is broken
1143 #923223 memtest86 errors
1144 #593342 autoconf script doesn't regenerate clean
1145 #616116 Crash on exit...
1146 #922042 shutdown through port 92 does not work
1147 #891633 02839990390p[CPU0 ] >>PANIC<< RDMSR: Unknown register 0x17
1148 #923653 DAA instruction is broken
1149 #911225 obscure AAA / AAS bugs
1150 #837206 Problems with numerical keys
1151 #658765 BOCHS halts in runtime config
1152 #890734 Bochsrc Parser Bug with commas included in strings
1153 #877285 MSR_APICBASE zero upon startup
1154 #526984 SDL compiled in cygwin just quits
1155 #886406 I/O permissions bug
1156 #883239 undefined symbols in gui/siminterface.h:1215
1157 #419647 on OSF1, cxx hates C++ inlines
1158 #809790 "No rule to make target `devices.cc?..."
1159 #873654 How compile without plug-in support ?
1160 #837161 Test case for BX_CPU_C::IRET32
1161 #888116 mmx.cc compile error
1163 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
1164 Changes in 2.1.1 (February 8, 2004):
1166 - fix bug in int15h function 0xe820 (Christian Neubert)
1167 - fix vmware3 disk support on big-endian platforms (Christophe Bothamy)
1168 - fix conditions for NM exception on FWAIT instruction (Christophe)
1169 - fix symbol conflict in rfb and x display libraries (Volker Ruppert)
1170 - allow 16 bit writes to ne2k page 0 (Kenneth Stailey)
1171 - notify display libraries on change of bpp (Volker)
1172 - fix bug in int13h function 0x10 (Volker)
1173 - fix floppy dialog error on win2k (Volker)
1174 - fix adress check in TSS IO permission bitmap (Christophe)
1175 - fix buffer overflow vulnerability pointed out by SeSoX (Christophe)
1176 - updates for MacOS compile (Daniel Gimpelevich)
1178 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
1179 Changes in 2.1 (January 9, 2004):
1183 - 3DNow!/SSE/SSE2/PNI instruction support
1184 - Vmware3/Sparse/Undoable/Growing harddisk images support
1185 - many VGA emulation improvements (e.g. high/true color VBE modes added)
1186 - No more X11 vga font required
1188 Detailed change log :
1191 - added emulation of AMD 3DNow! instructions set. (Stanislav Shwartsman)
1192 Bochs now could decode all AMD 3DNow! instructions.
1193 Most of instructions still not implemented, but the basis already presents.
1194 Configure --enable-3dnow to enable 3DNow! support.
1196 - These instructions are not implemented yet:
1197 PFPNACC_PqQq, PF2IW_PqQq, PFNACC_PqQq, PFCMPGE_PqQq, PFMIN_PqQq,
1198 PFRCP_PqQq, PFRSQRT_PqQq, PFSUB_PqQq, PFADD_PqQq, PFCMPGT_PqQq,
1199 PFMAX_PqQq, PFRCPIT1_PqQq, PFRSQIT1_PqQq, PFSUBR_PqQq, PFACC_PqQq,
1200 PFCMPEQ_PqQq, PFMUL_PqQq, PFRCPIT2_PqQq
1201 - CPUID does not report 3DNow! instruction set.
1202 - added emulation of SSE/SSE2 floating point instructions. (Stanislav)
1203 All SSE/SSE2 floating point instructions are fully implemented using
1204 free softfloat library (including DAZ support and floating point
1205 exceptions). Correctness of the emulation checked with heavily random
1207 - added emulation of SSE3 (PNI) instructions (Stanislav)
1208 Currently only 3 PNI opcodes still not implemented:
1209 FISTTP m16int, FISTTP m32int, FISTTP m64int
1210 - added P4 CPU support to CPUID instruction. (Stanislav)
1211 - fixed implementation of FXSAVE/FXRSTOR instructions. (Stanislav)
1212 - bugfix: unallowed lock prefix cases must cause #UD exception. (Stanislav)
1213 - fixed fetchdecode bug caused #UD in SYSENTER/SYSEXIT instructions
1214 in 32bit mode. (Stanislav)
1215 - fixed fetchdecode64 bug caused wrong decoding of opcodes containing
1216 BxImmediate_IvIw or BxImmediate_IwIb in x86-64. (Stanislav)
1217 - fixed bug in int01 (opcode 0xF1) emulation. (Vitaly Vorobyov)
1218 - fixed bug in x86 debugger with dr0-dr3 registers (Vitaly)
1219 - fixed bug with mov to/from dr register in v86mode.
1220 (now exception is generated (according to Intel documentation)
1221 instead of panic) (Vitaly)
1222 - fixed stack limit checking, now message is generated as BX_DEBUG,
1223 rather then BX_PANIC, and exception code is executed. (Vitaly)
1224 - instrumentation code updated. (Stanislav)
1225 - fix flaw in IO bitmap permission of TSS (Christophe Bothamy)
1226 - cpu resets on triple fault (Christophe)
1227 - remove calculation on cr3 in dtranslate_linear to increase
1228 emulation speed (Conn Clark)
1229 - numerous x86-64 fixes (Peter Tattam)
1232 - hundreds of bugfixes in FPU emulation after checking of the emulation
1233 with testfloat (Scott Duplichan).
1235 - floatx80_to_int32, floatx80_to_float32
1236 - floatx80_to_float64, floatx80_round_to_int
1237 - floatx80_add, floatx80_sub,
1238 - floatx80_mul, floatx80_div
1239 - implemented FCMOVcc instructions (Stanislav)
1240 - 64-bit addressing support for x86-64 mode (Peter)
1243 - replaced Bochs disassember. New table-based disassembler fully supports
1244 all IA-32 instruction sets including all FPU/MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 opcodes.
1249 - i/o access mask implemented, unallowed cases are now handled in the devices
1250 code and cause a BX_ERROR (Volker Ruppert)
1251 - include slowdown timer as a runtime option (Christophe)
1252 - netBSD : fix serial, ethernet, cdrom (fredb, uebayasi and David Laight)
1254 - color depth 15, 16, 24 and 32 bpp supported by VBE (Volker and
1255 Christopher Nelson for 32 bpp on win32). Supported by sdl, x, win32 and wx.
1256 - SVGA mode 0x6A (800x600x4bpp) implemented (Volker)
1257 - new CGA graphics modes 640x200x1bpp and 160x100x4bpp (text mode 80x100) (Volker)
1258 - raster operations AND, OR and XOR in write mode 2 (based on SF patch #707931) (Volker)
1259 - 'split screen' in standard VGA graphics mode implemented (Volker)
1260 - 'double scan' and 'double width' now handled in the VGA code (Volker)
1261 - more accurate emulation of the horizontal and vertical retrace (Volker)
1262 - changeable start address and variable line length supported by all
1263 graphics modes (Volker)
1264 - VBE: preserve video memory feature implemented (Volker)
1265 - additional text mode features prepared (handled in the display library
1268 - add experimental PCI VGA card (Mike Nordell)
1269 - add experimental PCI USB card (Ben Lunt)
1271 - per device selectable harddisk modes :
1272 - undoable, volatile, growing disks support (Christophe)
1273 - sparse disks support (justinSB)
1274 - vmware3 disks support (Sharvil Nanavati)
1275 - fix non detection of hard drives by minix2 (Christophe)
1276 - implement atapi command 0xA8 read (12) (Christophe)
1277 - mode sense command updated (Hartmut Birr)
1279 - opl2 support enhanced (James E. Flemer)
1281 - tap support for FreeBSD (Ronald Klop and Gen Otsuji)
1282 - fix when booting with grub (Keir Fraser)
1284 - date/time change support added (Volker)
1285 - UIP bit and divider chain reset implemented (Volker)
1286 - initial time can now be set to local time or utc (Christophe, Daniel Gimpelevich)
1288 - keyboard reset function (0xff) now resets the keyboard (Volker)
1290 - new standard PC gameport device (real joystick connected on Linux and
1291 win32 only). Enable it with --enable-gameport or the SB16 emulation (Volker)
1293 - FIFO emulation (UART type 16550A) implemented (Volker)
1295 - 160k,180k,320k floppies support (Ben Lunt)
1299 - onboard vgacard charmap usage (no need for external X11 vga font any more) (Christophe)
1300 - vgacard charmap change support (Christophe)
1301 - fix black stripes on partial exposes (Dirk Thierbach)
1302 - headerbar redraw optimizations (Dirk Thierbach)
1303 - external font files and their installation mechanism removed (Volker)
1304 - belgian keymap support (Wouter Verhelst, Eric Brasseur)
1305 - win32 + wx + x: new application/window icon (bochs.ico / icon_bochs.xpm) (Volker)
1306 - sdl + win32 + wx + x: new textmode features: variable line length,
1307 char width switch, horizontal and vertical pel panning (Volker)
1308 - win32 + wxMSW: key event handling rewritten (Volker)
1309 - win32: status bar at the bottom of the simulation window added (Volker)
1310 - wxMSW: resource problems fixed - wx dll plugin works now without errors (Volker)
1311 - term: variable line length and cursor enable/disable feature implemented (Volker)
1313 - textmode: charmap change, better cursor emulation, variable line length (Volker)
1314 - headerbar works now (power, reset and user button are okay) (Volker)
1315 - key event handling rewritten (Volker)
1316 - Bochs-RFB waits up to 30 seconds for a client connection. The emulation
1317 starts after connecting the client. (Volker)
1318 - carbon: Alt/Ctrl/Shift key handling rewritten & SysRq/Ctrl-Break key support added
1321 - configuration interface
1322 - gui dialogs as an extension of the textconfig interface on win32 added (Volker)
1324 * save text snapshot
1325 * user button shortcut
1326 * floppy image change
1327 - wxwindows configuration dialogs improved (Volker, Christophe)
1330 - bximage : added support for
1331 - growing disks (Christophe)
1332 - sparse disks (justinSB)
1333 - created bxcommit tool for undoable disk images (Christophe)
1336 - fixed int15 function e801 (get memory size) (Christophe)
1337 - added int75_handler for FPU Dos Exceptions (Christophe)
1338 - added int16 function 0a (Get Keyboard ID) (Volker)
1339 - added support for ElTorito Harddisk-on-CD emulation (Christophe)
1340 - fixed ATA/Serial ioport conflict (Daniel)
1342 - VGA BIOS : updated to version 0.4c (Christophe)
1344 - configure script/compile/porting to other OSes/installation
1345 - fixes for compilation with MSVC (Andrew Zabolotny)
1346 - fixes for cross-compilation (Jeroen Janssen)
1347 - win32 nsis installer script updates (Volker)
1348 - small configure fixes for MacOS (Christophe)
1349 - optimizations & compile fixes for MacOS/X (Daniel)
1351 - configuration files. The following options have been deprecated :
1352 diskc, diskd, cdromd, time0, pit, newharddrivesupport.
1355 - already ported and obsolete parts of the old documentation removed (Volker)
1356 - user documentation updated and extended :
1357 - improved section "What does Bochs need" (Volker)
1358 - command line arguments (Volker)
1359 - search order for the configuration file (Volker)
1360 - the configuration interface 'textconfig' (Volker)
1361 - FreeDOS Beta 8 installation instructions (Volker)
1362 - disk modes (Christophe)
1363 - LBA translation (Christophe)
1364 - cdboot error codes (Christophe)
1365 - SCO OpenServer install section (Carl Sopchak)
1366 - MacOS-X DMG install guide (Aard Vark)
1367 - update Win98 install guide (Dirk Thierbach)
1369 - SF patches applied
1370 #658950 Bug in FPU (Anonymous)
1371 #678117 build fail due to bad SGML punctuation (Anonymous)
1372 #671873 minimal USB support (UHCI) (Ben Lunt)
1373 #682539 Fix CapsLock and NumLock behavior (rock at gimp.org)
1374 #720776 REX MOVB immediate broken for x86_64 (Arnd Bergmann)
1375 #729450 new keymap x11-pc-be.map (Wouter Verhelst)
1376 #735990 Limited patches for VC++ (Anonymous)
1377 #742670 fix library dependencies in GUI plugins (Robert Millan)
1378 #742782 LFB bugfix (Jan L. Hauffa)
1379 #748414 load32bitOShack bug (kyriazis at nvidia.com)
1380 #830079 Fix bochs's application error if unsupported key pressed (Anonymous)
1381 #724466 enable building with CC=gcc-3.2 CXX=g++-3.2; dist-clean adds(Leonard Norrgard)
1382 #834962 Fixed drawing graphics is broken (Anonymous)
1383 #838401 Fixed redrawing of ToolBar on Win32GUI (Anonymous)
1384 #850236 Fixed accessing DVD-ROM with direct device access on Win32 (Anonymous)
1385 #847822 Bochs crash when exmining memory that crosses page boundary (ortal at jungo.com)
1387 - SF patches partially applied
1388 #707931 Support EGA/VGA write mode 2 and others (Anonymous)
1389 already applied: disable IME, split screen, write mode 2,
1391 #856506/#856510 Patch to fix compile-time iodev/cd-rom.cc error (alden.dima at nist.gov)
1392 Correct patch provided in SF bug report #843433 (birkhofer at users.sourceforge.net)
1395 - patch.highmem (memory allocation) (Zwane Mwaikambo)
1396 - patch.floppy-160k-180k-320k-benlunt (exotic floppies) (Ben Lunt)
1397 - patch.perf-regparm-cclark (performance) (Conn Clark)
1399 - new patches present in the patches directory :
1400 patch.pipelined-asm-cclark
1401 patch.mingw-resources
1402 patch.v8086-exception.lightcone
1403 patch.pit-vitaly-vorobyov
1404 patch.rombios-vitaly-vorobyov
1405 patch.win32-vitaly-vorobyov
1406 patch.win32-new-files-vitaly-vorobyov.tgz
1407 patch.rombios.markevich
1408 patch.rombios.dirk.thierbach
1410 - these S.F. bugs were closed
1411 #865354 ">>PANIC<< CRA: divider chain control 0x07" in Linux 1.1
1412 #725796 configure script bug
1414 #863964 panic in duron 2000
1415 #843433 cdrom.cc on MacOSX: wrong const names
1416 #818493 EMU][ (DJGPP app running on FreeDOS) broken
1417 #787005 Some MOV instructions are not implemented!!!
1418 #840664 2200136693936p[CPU ] >>PANIC<< prefetch: RIP > CS.limit
1419 #837416 V2 OS not compatible !?
1420 #650917 Serial port broken under win95
1421 #829863 Make bochs 2.0.2 build with gcc3
1422 #816971 main.cc: getcwd() missing argument
1423 #813556 Compile error under gcc 3.3.1
1424 #809758 RIGHT ALT does not function properly
1425 #809695 CVS complains about unknown files after compilation
1426 #628762 Error in Floppy Booting
1427 #474526 Crash under win32 (access violation)
1428 #687619 test case for BX_CPU_C::IRET32
1429 #664544 Panic in IRET32 - Reporting test case
1430 #637822 test case for BX_CPU_C::IRET32
1431 #603410 BX_CP U_C::IRET32
1432 #537047 IRET32 incomplete emulation, panic
1433 #805541 Compile fails on i686, gcc 3.3
1434 #798829 Problem booting from ISO image
1435 #688163 Panic at rombios.c
1436 #688161 rombios.c crashes when boot from a CD.
1437 #796339 int 15h, e801h broken?
1438 #666946 Slowdown Timer should be a module
1439 #783826 the clock is extremely fast
1440 #645609 Real Time Clock is too *FAST*
1441 #663320 flaw in IO bitmap permission handling
1442 #764929 Timing is off.
1443 #659510 Bochs timing off by x10
1444 #787138 No ROM BIOS character map
1445 #787134 Config options not saved
1446 #689201 Disassembler bug
1447 #666202 Windows 2000 - random screen blanking with linux DLX demo
1448 #629242 reset during Doom -> BIOS panic
1449 #695434 minix floppies won't boot.
1450 #764473 Freesco Linux crashes on boot
1451 #656026 error when trying to run some stuff
1452 #614202 HD: non-byte IO read to 01f4
1453 #777357 Strange FPU compiler error
1454 #583758 gag bootloader doesn't run
1455 #658639 ne2k panics with MS lanman Client/DOS62
1456 #536711 problem running smart bootmanager
1457 #741433 Disabling all ata# results in HD error.
1458 #753200 lock instruction doesn't do an illegal instruction trap
1459 #679389 libbx_wx.so.0: undefined symbol
1460 #758936 Problem Installing Bochs
1461 #742580 I configured fants but bochs still give me the same error
1462 #772242 iodev/vga.cc wrong memory access.
1463 #739222 Cannot change resultion
1464 #693344 libwx_gtk2.3.so.2 RedHat linux 8.0
1465 #639320 sparc: needs -lm to compile
1466 #587422 Windows 95j doesn't boot
1467 #547817 sparc: rfb needs -lsocket
1468 #480963 RFB: option to wait for client
1469 #763893 i've got problems with a "libvga.so.1" and another file
1470 #766490 Documentation mistake
1471 #766481 Bochs 2.0.2 Fails to compile on YDL3.0
1472 #626144 %lld is not portable
1473 #752241 lock prefix erronously allowed for some instructions
1474 #743305 fetchdecode.c probs
1475 #658707 Automatic exit?
1476 #696758 BeOS can't mount image disk, won't complete boot.
1477 #737048 Enabling keyboard resets controllers translation mode
1478 #717713 Bochs panics on startup on RH 9
1480 #730922 seg fault on "bochs boot: cdrom"
1481 #658905 VGA read write error
1482 #564218 Panic on vga_mem_write
1483 #614231 X11 doesn't support charmap change
1484 #708311 Missing CGA low-res emulation
1485 #720776 REX MOVB immediate broken for x86_64
1486 #643296 lock prefix, unallowed cases
1487 #716964 [sb16] OPL.timer_running not initialized
1488 #662074 little mistake in the default config example
1489 #470701 CD-ROM on Win2K needs FILE_SHARE_READ
1491 #653861 Win32 build bug
1492 #421155 panic on vga read 0x3c7,0x3cb
1493 #666434 VGA BIOS: Incompatible mode reporting
1494 #681819 Incorrent return value from cdrom reads
1495 #648222 Lotus Agenda futuristic dates off
1496 #657455 doesn't boot plan9
1497 #658938 SGDT in VM8086
1499 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
1500 Changes in 2.0.2 (January 21, 2003):
1502 - fix possible segfault in wxWindows (Volker Ruppert)
1503 - fix instrumentation (Stanislav Shwartsman)
1504 - fix cdrom read_toc() function for *BSD (Keith Matthew Jones)
1505 - fix NetBSD boot from cdrom (Christophe Bothamy)
1506 - fix cmos checksum (Volker)
1507 - fix "refresh bit" behaviour in pit (Volker)
1508 - fix .bochsrc parsing (Volker)
1509 - fix vga resize/redraw problems (Volker)
1510 - fix compilation issues on Irix and Tru64 (Christophe)
1511 - fix MMX/SSE bugs (Stanislav, Peter Tattam)
1513 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
1514 Changes in 2.0.1 (January 4, 2003):
1516 - fix corrupt saved configuration files (Christophe Bothamy)
1517 - fix missing break statements in apic (Shai Fultheim)
1518 - fix compiling sb16 under FreeBSD (Volker Ruppert)
1519 - updates to the documentation (Volker)
1520 - fix text mode colors 8 to 15 (Volker)
1521 - fix FPU integer load bug (Volker)
1522 - stop pasting on hardware reset (Volker)
1524 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
1525 Changes in 2.0 (December 21, 2002):
1527 Since the change log is hundreds of lines long, here is a very brief summary.
1528 - 2x emulation speedup!!!
1529 - added plugin devices and guis. Now you can compile with many more
1530 options, and choose between them at runtime.
1531 - added emulation of AMD x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2 instructions
1532 - add wxWindows port (a graphical configuration interface and display lib)
1533 and SVGAlib port (full screen display for Linux without X11)
1534 - improvements in many I/O devices: for example up to 8 hard disks/cdroms,
1535 TUN/TAP network interface, 360k floppies,
1536 - improved MacOSX/Carbon interface and updated MacOS9 port
1537 - GDB remote stub, allows symbolic debugging with Bochs simulation.
1538 - support for up to 32gig hard disk images
1540 Detailed change log follows.
1543 - manpages updated (Volker, Christophe)
1544 - install HTML rendering of docbook documentation instead of
1546 - doc/docbook/Makefile is now generated by configure script.
1547 if configure detects docbook2html on your system, it will turn on
1548 --enable-docbook and run make in the doc/docbook directory. Also
1549 make install will install documentation into $(docdir). You can use
1550 --disable-docbook to turn this off, if necessary. (Bryce)
1551 - add "make bochsdoc.tar.gz" target to create a documentation tarball.
1552 If you do "make webinst" and you have write access on SF shell server,
1553 it updates doc/docbook/* on the website (Bryce)
1554 - user documentation additions:
1555 - new options (Bryce, Volker, Christophe)
1556 - Bios tips section (Christophe)
1557 - Tuntap section (Christophe)
1558 - Serial Port section (Christophe)
1559 - "Will it Work for Me" / "Is Bochs Right for Me" sections
1561 - VESA section (Jeroen Janssen)
1562 - several documents, previously existing as separate html files, have
1564 - internal debugger section (Christophe)
1565 - gdb stub debugger section (Christophe)
1566 - WinME, WinNT, WinXP, The Hurd, Japanese Win95 install tips (Christophe)
1567 - Win95, Win98 install tips (N. David)
1568 - SB16 section (N. David)
1570 - configure script/compile/porting to other OSes/installation
1571 - added plugin architecture
1572 - plugin code written by Bryce, Christophe, Volker based on
1573 plex86's plugin code by Kevin. Testing help from Psyon and Br'fin.
1574 - Plugins are shared libraries that can be loaded on demand. Example:
1575 the serial device is implemented as a plugin. In UNIX, the
1576 serial plugin is called libbx_serial.so. When Bochs reads its
1577 configuration file, if the serial device is enabled it loads
1579 - all display libraries, most I/O devices are converted to plugins now
1580 - plugins supported on Linux, Solaris, and MacOS X using libtool,
1581 Cygwin using dlltool. On MacOSX, you must have dlcompat installed
1582 and in your include/library paths at configure time. (See .conf.macosx
1584 - we use libtool's LTDL library from libtool 1.4.2, with a number of
1585 critical bug fixes (Bryce Denney)
1586 - the Linux binary RPMs are built with plugin support
1587 - to compile with plugins, configure with --enable-plugins
1588 - the LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH variable tells Bochs where its plugins can be
1589 found. Bochs has a compile-time default for this variable which is
1590 correct if you do a make install. You would only need to set the
1591 variable if the default is wrong.
1592 - for win32 plugins we added "BOCHSAPI" in front of many classes
1593 and methods, to aid in building DLLs. This turns into __declspecs
1594 which are used when making an export library for Bochs.
1595 - allow many display libraries to be configured and compiled at
1596 a time. For example --with-win32 --with-sdl --with-rfb.
1597 Also, we added an experimental option --with-all-libs which
1598 tries to detect which --with-* options will work. If the
1599 autodetection fails, just type the --with-* options explicitly. (Bryce)
1600 - add #if's around all files which are conditionally compiled such
1601 as cdrom.cc and sb16.cc. This makes it possible to compile every
1602 source file all the time, which has the potential to simplify the
1603 configure script and makefiles. At present we only take advantage
1604 of this capability in the win32 VC++ workspace. (Bryce)
1605 - the MacOS9 port has been updated so that it works again. It had
1606 not been updated in at least 2 years, maybe more. (Christophe Bothamy)
1607 - improve support for FHS standard (Robert Millan, Volker Ruppert)
1608 See patches 551811 and 650066.
1609 - keep separate CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS for Bochs (usually a graphical
1610 program) and console programs such as bximage and niclist. Some
1611 sdl and wx compile flags were making bximage and niclist unusable.(Bryce)
1612 - add concept of cross-configuring in the configure script. If you
1613 use the --target option to generate makefiles to be used on another
1614 machine, some detection of compilers and libraries is disabled. (Bryce)
1615 - fix term compile on Cygwin, but it has to be done without -mno-cygwin,
1616 which means that several win32 features such as networking do not work.
1617 - add "-Wno-multichar" on beos
1618 - test for largefile support, and add required CFLAGS (Bryce)
1619 - add -lm when it's needed, and not when it's not (Bryce)
1620 - add configure support for 8 processors. Bochs can support up to 15
1621 with some work on the BIOS.
1622 - fix nmake makefile generation (Psyon)
1623 - improved pthread detection function from ac-archive project on SF
1624 - add installer package for Windows, using Nullsoft (Michael Rich, Bryce)
1625 - on MacOSX, add startup script that creates a text console and then
1626 runs Bochs. Also add make target to create a DMG disk image (Br'fin)
1627 - do not restart the font server on Unix/X11, if vga.pcf was already
1628 installed. On several modern machines, if you restart the font
1629 server the user has to restart X windows. (Bryce)
1630 - update most .conf.* files with modern options such as
1631 --enable-all-optimizations. (Bryce)
1632 - The MacosX .conf script adds /sw/include and /sw/lib to the compile/link
1633 path list because it is a common place to put dlcompat. Dlcompat is
1634 required when building with plugins. (Bryce)
1635 - rpms can now be built without root privileges (Bryce)
1638 - fixed up our command line options (Volker, Bryce, Christophe)
1639 Usage: bochs [flags] [bochsrc options]
1640 -n no configuration file
1641 -f configfile specify configuration file
1642 -q quick start (skip configuration interface)
1643 --help display this help and exit
1645 - configuration file (bochsrc)
1646 - There are several new options. See the documentation for more details.
1647 - config_interface: select text mode menus or wxWindows for configuration
1648 - display_library: select which display lib to use
1649 - optromimage: load optional rom images
1650 - ataN (N=0,1,2,3): up to 4 ATA controllers for hard disks, cdroms
1651 - ataN-master, ataN-slave, N=0,1,2,3: defines a hard disk or cdrom.
1652 The "ata*" options replace diskc, diskd, and cdromd, which are
1654 - floppy_bootsig_check: control the 0xaa55 signature check on boot floppies
1655 - logprefix: lets you change the format of log messages
1656 (patch by Carl Sopchak, help from Christophe)
1657 - debugger_log: log all output from bochs debugger
1658 - user_shortcut: allow you to type key combinations like Ctrl-Alt-Del
1659 - pit: control the PIT model, including realtime option to try to
1660 keep in sync with real time.
1661 - Credits: Christophe added optromimage, everything about ATA,
1662 floppy_bootsig_check, debugger_log. Bryce added config_interface
1663 and display_library. Volker did the user_shortcut button.
1664 Greg Alexander wrote the PIT model and added the realtime option.
1665 - since v1.3 we've been able to use environment variables in pathnames
1666 in the bochsrc file. Now, a few variables have default values, set at
1667 compile time, that are used if the user does not set a value. If Bochs
1668 is installed correctly, the defaults will be correct and the user will
1669 not need to override them.
1670 - $LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH is the path name where the plugins can be found.
1671 The default value comes from $(plugdir) in the makefile. This is only
1672 important if plugins are enabled. (Bryce)
1673 - $BXSHARE is the path where the BIOSes and keymaps are installed.
1674 The default value comes from $(sharedir) in the makefile. Disk
1675 images on the Bochs website will begin to use BIOS pathnames like
1676 $BXSHARE/BIOS-bios-latest. On win32, the $BXSHARE default is
1677 set by the NSIS installer and read from the registry. On MacoSX,
1678 the $BXSHARE default is set to the path containing bochs.app.
1679 (Bryce, Volker, Br'fin)
1680 - new option in the configuration interface to reset all bochsrc
1681 settings to initial defaults. A reset occurs just before reading
1682 a new configuration file, so that leftover parameters from a
1683 previous configuration do not affect the new configuration. Also,
1684 you can request a reset using the configuration interface. (Volker, Bryce)
1685 - ne2k line can now specify a script to set up the interface (Christophe)
1686 - on Unix, also search /etc/bochsrc (Bernhard Bablok)
1687 - you can use #include in the bochsrc to read configuration from other
1691 - speed optimizations from Kevin Lawton, yielding around 2x speedup
1692 - guest2host_tlb : for entries in the paging TLB which point to normal
1693 physical memory pages, a pointer to the host address of the emulated
1694 physical memory (from malloc()) page is stored in the TLB entry. In
1695 many cases, this pointer can be used in memory accesses to directly
1696 read/write the guest memory address. In exceptional cases, the physical
1697 memory access routines are used. Turn on with --enable-guest2host-tlb.
1698 - repeat IO/string : for some variants of repeatable IO and string
1699 instructions, the segmentation and paging checks are done in batch along
1700 with the data transfers, constrained within page boundaries and the
1701 segment limits. Turn on with --enable-repeat-speedups.
1702 - icache : The structure holding instruction decode information was
1703 reduced to 32 bytes. 24 bytes for the actual decode data, and 4 each
1704 for pointers to the address resolution routine (not always needed) and
1705 the instruction emulation routine. With a reasonably small
1706 per-instruction decode size, an instruction cache (iCache) was created,
1707 which is simply a hash table. The main cpu loop looks in the table
1708 first; if the instruction has already been decoded, execution can begin
1709 immediately without decoding. Turn on with --enable-icache.
1710 - host specific asm : when compiling on an x86 platform, use of
1711 x86-specific asms can be enabled to accelerate several facets of
1712 emulating instructions. For example, the EFLAGS values are much more
1713 efficient to calculate when the actual x86 instructions are used to
1714 generate the EFLAGS values. Turn on with --enable-host-specific-asms.
1715 (Kevin, with help from Jas Sandys-Lumsdaine)
1716 - if you want to enable all the speed optimizations that we believe
1717 to be stable, use --enable-all-optimizations. The release binaries
1718 are built with this option.
1719 - add support for AMD's x86-64 instruction set. To enable, configure with
1720 --enable-x86-64. The AMD x86-64 support is about 90% complete and is
1721 still experimental. We've implemented the core x86-64 instruction set and
1722 the changes to the rest of Bochs necessary to operate in long mode, but
1723 we've still to implement checking for canonical 64 bit addresses. The code
1724 has been tested on a limited number of test programs. It has been able to
1725 successfully boot a x86-64 Linux kernel and run a 64 bit userland
1726 application. It has also successfully run a DOS based 64 bit protected
1727 mode test application. (Peter Tattam, with merge/bugfix help from Kevin
1728 Lawton and Bryce Denney)
1729 - add MMX support. To enable, configure with --enable-mmx.
1730 (Stanislav Shwartsman)
1731 - add SSE and SSE2 support. To enable, configure with --enable-sse=1
1732 or --enable-sse=2. (Stanislav)
1733 - fixed the behaviour of the bcd instructions AAM, AAD and DAA based on
1734 SF patch #537146 (Volker)
1735 - stop printing an error for VERR/VERW. According to the i386 opcode
1736 description there is no error present. (Volker)
1737 - fix bug [ 625878 ] reset doesn't reset something(?). Fix cpu reset
1738 when executing a rep instruction (Christophe)
1739 - use accessors methods for CFLAGS and several other registers, so that
1740 the implementation can be changed transparently later (Bryce, Stanislav)
1741 - add support for page size extensions, also known as 4meg pages.
1742 Turn on with --enable-4meg-pages. (Kevin Lawton)
1743 - add support for page global extensions. Turn on with
1744 --enable-global-pages. (Kevin)
1745 - add support for physical address extensions. Turn on with --enable-pae.
1747 - implement RDMSR and WRMSR. not all MSRs are supported (Zwane Mwaikambo)
1748 - new configure option --enable-ignore-bad-msr, which makes unrecognized
1749 MSR reads and writes into just a warning
1750 - fix PIC/APIC interrupt problem that caused Linux 2.4.19 to hang
1752 - CMPXCHG8B patch (Michael Hohmuth)
1753 - EFLAGS are now stored in the same form as the native EFLAGS on an x86,
1754 so that we can use native machine instructions in some cases (Kevin)
1755 - instrumentation code updated (Stanislav)
1758 - fixed bug [ 452275 ] fprem emulation bug (Volker)
1759 - fixed bug [ 648579 ] Mac OSX >>PANIC<< FPU_printall. There was an
1760 endianness issue with the fpu (Christophe)
1763 - rewrote pc_system timers (Kevin)
1765 - this new device handles the panic/error/info/debug messages sent
1766 by the Bios and VGABios. It was previously done in the unmapped device.
1768 - implementation of the function READ TOC for cdrom image files. (Volker)
1769 - function capacity() for win32 fixed. Now it returns the number of blocks
1770 instead of bytes. (Volker)
1771 - added multiple cdrom support for win32 (NT/2000 version untested). The
1772 ASPI version uses the cdrom drives in the system's order. Drive letters
1773 are not used by ASPI. (Volker)
1774 - fix configure script's cdrom detection on BeOS (Bryce)
1775 - fix physical CD change at runtime (Bryce)
1777 - fix panic when WinXP read port 70h (Christophe)
1778 - add ps/2 style century at index 37 to allow WinXP to boot. (Bryce)
1780 - DMA register and unregister functions for DMA channels added and macros
1781 for DMA functions defined. The changes are based on the Plex86 functions.
1783 - implementation of the DMA controller reset (Volker)
1784 - the value of the command register must be always 0x00 (BX_ERROR fixed)
1786 - implemented Tape Drive Register (Dave Poirier)
1787 - added support for 360k floppy images
1788 - the skip flag (SK) in command 'read sector' is ignored now
1789 - floppy read and write function do not set the 'seek end' bit in status
1790 register 0 (fixes SF bug #553377)
1791 - the status of the 'disk changed' line depends on the selected drive.
1792 The digital input register is now an array (DIR[4]).
1793 - apply patch [ 635021 ] floppy cleanup by Alex Thiel
1794 - distinguish between floppy drive type and media type
1796 - add largefiles support, to allow disk images larger than 2gig.
1798 - missing conditions for lower_irq() added (Volker)
1799 - several noncritical panics replaced with BX_ERRORS and the controller
1800 returns an error code until we implement the features (Volker)
1801 - applied patch from Carl Sopchak for booting sco openserver
1802 - allow disk block access only if concatenated images are not used
1804 - fix bug [ 419415 ] netbsd 1.5 rescue disk won't boot (Volker)
1805 - multiple drq atapi data transfers corruption fixed (Christophe)
1806 - added some commands to the unsupported "Set Feature" commands (Christophe)
1807 - speedups in repeated IO transfers (Kevin)
1808 - support for Peter Tattam's external disk simulator (Bryce)
1809 - 4 channels / 8 devices support (Christophe)
1810 - "inquiry" atapi command results corrected (Volker)
1811 - check for incomplete devices configuration before starting the
1813 - implemented the different bios disk translation schemes (Christophe)
1814 - keyboard and mouse
1815 - add commands 0xd2, 0xdd and 0xdf (Dave)
1816 - fix bug [ 613975 ] wxWindows: params redefined on restart (Bryce)
1817 - in function mouse_motion(): added parentheses to fix compilation problems
1818 with MSVC. See SF bug #575301. (Volker)
1819 - added missing register_irq() for the PS/2 mouse IRQ12 (Volker)
1820 - fix "AltGr" key on European keyboards wxWindows/win32, SDL (Volker)
1822 - function reset() clears the IRQ line (Volker)
1823 - added TUN/TAP interface (Renzo Davoli, Christophe)
1824 - fix DOS based packet drivers that use an odd count for the NE2000 DMA (Peter)
1825 - changed "TCR write, reserved bits set" panic into an error, fixes
1826 networking with debian image (Bryce)
1828 - parport1 enable/disable support added (Volker)
1830 - implementation of the PCI device register mechanism
1831 - PCI memory handling moved to the memory code
1832 - replaced memcpy() in pci_read() by a more portable code. Problems with
1833 PCI on big-endian machines are fixed now (SF bug #638481).
1834 - implementation of the PCI-to-ISA bridge started (still incomplete)
1836 - fixed detection of single mode and level senistive mode in ICW1 (Volker)
1837 - fixed handling of rotate_on_autoeoi for master PIC (Volker)
1838 - irq mask is now cleared on initialization (Dave)
1839 - fixed lockup during mouse movements during win98 install. (patch from
1842 - Added realtime PIT support (Greg)
1844 - it used to enable itself all the time; now only when you ask
1845 - fix memory leaks (Bryce)
1847 - don't cause problems when serial device is disabled (Volker)
1849 - add programmatic shutdown feature at port 0x8900 (Christophe)
1851 - VBE fixes (Jeroen, Volker)
1852 - CRTC fixes (Volker)
1853 - sequencer reset with bits 'reset1' and 'reset2' implemented (Volker)
1854 - add charmap change support (used by SDL, win32 and wxWindows gui) (Volker)
1855 - screen dimensions / updates for some graphics and text modes fixed (Volker)
1856 - use the start address when calculating the byte offset for standard
1857 EGA/VGA modes (Volker)
1858 - byte offset for modeX fixed (use value of CRT register 0x13) (Volker)
1859 - text mode memory mappings 0 and 1 support (Christophe)
1860 - fix bug [ 612741 ] VBE mem conflicts w/ local APIC address (Jeroen)
1861 - fix bug #635223: VGA tiles array access out of bounds (Bryce)
1864 - improve compile process. Now bioses for 1, 2, 4 and 8 processors
1865 are built at the same time (Bryce)
1866 - fixes to be able to compile the bios with gcc2 or gcc3 (Jeroen and
1868 - changes on boot signature check (Christophe):
1869 - never done for cdroms
1870 - always done for hard-disks
1871 - conditional for floppies
1872 - add keyboard int16 functions 0x09 (get keyboard functionality) and
1873 0x0a (get keyboard id) (Christophe)
1874 - fix bug [ 629810 ] int 16/ah=01 broken? Enable interrupt on entering
1875 int16 handler (Christophe)
1876 - new keyboard init in POST (patch from Adam Sulmicki)
1877 - flush input and output keyboard buffer before keyboard self test
1878 (Volker and Christophe)
1879 - fix bug [ 547603 ] kbd up/down arrows in dos install (Christophe)
1880 - fix bug [ 549815 ] bios wrongly loads CS,ES. CS and ES are set to 0
1881 before the bootloader code is called. (Christophe)
1882 - PCI functions support (Volker) :
1883 - BIOS32 service directory
1884 - real mode PCI int1a functions
1885 - protected mode PCI int1a functions
1886 - fix reset for MS-DOS and Win95 (Volker)
1887 - 360K floppy support (Volker)
1888 - enhanced ata/atapi support (Christophe) :
1889 - 4 channels / 8 devices
1890 - device auto detection (with help from Adam Sulmicki)
1892 - 32bits device access
1893 - optional disk translation "large", "r-echs" or "lba" (up to 8.4GiB)
1894 - re-enable harddisk controller interrupt after reads/writes.
1895 Win95 can now use native access to harddisks and cdroms. (Volker)
1896 - shutdown status handling (cmos index 0x0f) (Christophe) :
1897 - fix bug [ 601166 ] CMOS Problem @ "0x0F Index 0x05 data". After reset
1898 execution will resume by a jump to [0x40:0x67] if the shutdown status
1900 - the bios don't panic any more if the shutdown status is 9
1901 - two parallel ports detection in POST (Volker)
1902 - two serial ports detection in POST (Volker)
1903 - add int15 extended memory function 0xe820 (patch from osmaker) and
1904 0xe801 (patch from Hartmut Birr)
1905 - fix return values on some int15 functions (Bryce)
1906 - fix int70 handler overlapping int08 handler (Christophe)
1907 - simplify 8 processors BIOS for operating systems which don't do
1908 paranoia/sanity checks (Zwane)
1910 - configuration interface
1911 - wxWindows config interface now allows you to change every bochsrc
1912 option using menus and dialog boxes. There is also the beginning of
1913 a wxWindows graphical debugger, but it needs a lot of work before it
1915 - renamed control.cc to textconfig.cc. Now we're calling it a
1916 text configuration interface, instead of a control panel.
1919 - Even though we've had them for years, the term "display library" is new in
1920 release 2.0. In the gui directory, Bochs has a number of different C++
1921 files which you can select to display the text and graphics on the
1922 simulated monitor. Each of these is a display library. The display
1924 x use X windows interface, cross platform
1925 win32 use native win32 libraries
1926 carbon use Carbon library (for MacOS X)
1927 beos use native BeOS libraries
1928 macintosh use MacOS pre-10
1929 amigaos use native AmigaOS libraries
1930 sdl use SDL library, cross platform
1931 svga use SVGALIB library for Linux, allows graphics without X
1932 term text only, uses curses/ncurses library, cross platform
1933 rfb provides an interface to AT&T's VNC viewer, cross platform
1934 wx use wxWindows library, cross platform
1935 nogui no display at all
1936 - it is now possible to compile Bochs with support for many different
1937 display libraries and select the one to use at runtime (even without
1938 plugins). See the display_library directive in .bochsrc.
1939 - add new svgalib display library by Igor Popik
1940 - fix bug [ 614724 ] SDL can get stuck in full screen mode
1941 display libraries such as SDL which have a full screen mode can be
1942 dangerous, if Bochs does not switch back to normal display mode at
1943 the right time. This is fixed for SDL and the new svga.
1944 - keymap support added in SDL interface (Bryce, Volker)
1945 - new keymap files: SDL keymaps for US and DE keyboards, X11 keymap
1946 for Danish keyboard.
1947 - use keyboard mapping for keyup messages too
1948 - renamed almost all references to data type "Boolean" to "bx_bool".
1949 The Boolean data type was defined in Carbon.h headers, and conflicted
1950 with Bochs's definition. See bug [ 618388 ] Unable to boot under MacOS X
1951 Exceptions: When talking to the Carbon library, you must use Boolean.
1952 Also, siminterface.h uses standard "bool" instead of bx_bool.
1953 - "User" button added in toolbar. It can send keyboard shortcuts to
1954 the guest OS. (Volker)
1955 - snapshot improvement and memory leak fixed (Volker)
1956 - testing framework, based on comparing screen content, added (Greg)
1957 - term display library:
1958 - support for color terminal, function keys, clear screen (Volker)
1959 - solaris compilation problem (bug #613393) fixed (Bryce)
1960 - win32 display library:
1961 - use native win32 toolbar for headerbar, use system palette (Volker)
1962 - many Carbon interface improvements:
1963 - patch [ 549248 ] Fix Carbon key & menu handling (Chris Thomas)
1964 - partial keymap support, copy&paste, menu items fixed, new toolbar
1965 behavior, dialog box display for panics (Br'fin)
1966 - sdl display library:
1967 - keyboard fixes and key mapping added (Bryce)
1968 - when captured, the mouse is forced to stay in the window. fix bug
1969 [ 619283 ] SDL: os mouse pointer leaves the window (Bryce)
1970 - x display library:
1971 - bug [ #537593 ] vga font not being found fixed. If vga font not
1972 found, search for a font called "-*-vga-*" (Bryce)
1973 - keyboard problems fixed (Bryce, Christophe)
1974 - beos platform, any display library: add a nice icon to the executable
1978 - wxWindows is a cross-platform C++ user interface library which you can
1979 download for free at http://wxwindows.org. wxWindows provides C++
1980 classes for all sorts of GUI controls (buttons, menubars, etc.) and
1981 implements all of them using the native controls on the platform.
1982 - The new wxWindows port of Bochs provides both a graphical configuration
1983 interface (for editing bochsrc options) and a display. It was
1984 written by Bryce Denney, Don Becker, Dave Poirier, and Volker Ruppert.
1985 - In release 2.0, we concentrated on making the wxWindows port as stable
1986 and functional as the other interfaces. wxWindows provides a great
1987 toolbox that we can use to make Bochs easier to learn and use.
1988 - wxWindows supports charmap changes, keyboard mapping, cut and paste,
1989 text and graphics modes, text mode cursor size, and mouse (Volker, Bryce)
1990 - To compile Bochs with wxWindows, you should install wxWindows 2.3.3
1991 or later. Then configure Bochs with --with-wx.
1992 - if you have multiple versions of wxWindows installed (e.g. a debug
1993 and a release version), you can set $WX_CONFIG before configuring
1994 to select between them. (Bryce)
1997 - [ 609616 ] remote GDB stub
1998 add GDB Stub support from Johan Rydberg, with bug fixes by Stu Grossman
1999 - add hooks for external debugger for win32. The external debugger
2000 that connects to Bochs is distributed in
2001 build/win32/tattam-external-debugger.zip in binary form. Turn on
2002 with --enable-external-debugger. (Peter)
2003 - add "debugger_log" option to bochsrc, which logs all debug output
2004 into a file. feature [ 629068 ] (Christophe)
2005 - debugger is now usable in fullscreen SDL and SVGA guis. It will
2006 switch back to text mode for each debug prompt (Bryce)
2007 - disassembly output cleaned up and improved
2008 (Kernel Panic, Peter Tattam, Jonathan Shapiro, Luiz Henrique Shigunov)
2009 - fix [ 628806 ] debug: x/c prints unprintable chars (Bryce)
2010 - add the beginnings of a wxWindows debugger. Not ready for mainstream use
2011 yet. CPU register display is implemented, and you can type any debugger
2012 command you want into the Debug Console window. (Bryce)
2013 - add help command (Alexander Krisak)
2014 - symbol table lookups cleaned up a bit (Bryce)
2015 - displays the address of the caught watchpoint, feature #435271 (Dave)
2016 - remove obsolete "loader"
2019 - fixed bug [ 487758 ] bximage fails on file creation >2048meg
2020 Bximage should now work up to 32gig. (Bryce)
2021 - on win32, both bximage and niclist now ask the user to press
2022 return before exiting, so that you have time to read the results
2023 before the window disappears. (Bryce)
2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2026 Changes in 1.4.1 (June 22, 2002):
2028 - now cdrom is enabled in configure, unless you specifically disable
2029 it with --disable-cdrom. (Christophe)
2030 - fix compile error in main.cc when SMP or APIC is enabled (Dave)
2031 - the runtime menu now displays 11 (continue) by default (Bryce)
2032 - initialize DMA controller before floppy and SB16
2033 - fix DMA panic when installing win95 (Volker)
2034 - first character of the vga bitmap is blank on win32 (Volker)
2035 Before, it was incorrectly coded as a '@'.
2036 - AltGr key on European keyboards works now on win32 (Volker)
2037 - fix problem with console/serial port on Bochs exit (Volker)
2038 - enable serial port for GNU and GNU/Linux (Volker)
2039 - small documentation fixes (Volker)
2040 - remove unnecessary include statements for X11 (Volker)
2041 - italian keymap added (Emanuele Goldoni)
2042 - fix win32 ethernet frames error. It will no longer reject packets
2043 that are less than 60 bytes long. (Peter Tattam)
2045 - win2k cd-boot (Christophe)
2046 - emm386 crash (Dave)
2047 - cs=0 at boot time (Christophe)
2048 - keyboard failure in scandisk (Dave)
2049 - fix bug in forming the 64-bit APIC base address from two 32-bit registers.
2050 A compiler warning in cpu/proc_ctrl.cc pointed this out.
2051 - fix default choice in the runtime options menu
2053 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2054 Changes in 1.4 (March 27, 2002):
2056 - Boot from CDROM! Christophe Bothamy added partial El Torito support in
2057 rombios.c, which allows Bochs to boot cdroms. Booting from win2k or winXP
2058 cdrom is not supported yet. The default BIOS includes El Torito functions.
2059 the boot line must say "cdrom".
2062 - implementation of int13 diskette function 5 (format track) (Volker)
2063 - initialisation of PIC and DMA-2 added to POST code (Volker)
2064 - configure script (Bryce Denney)
2065 - the configure script now detects your platform and provides a default
2066 GUI and the required compiler flags. All supported platforms should
2067 compile with simply "configure" and "make".
2068 - default guis by platform:
2069 - win32/windows/cygwin: win32 gui
2070 - MacOS X: carbon gui
2071 - MacOS 9 or earlier: macos gui
2073 - AmigaOS: amigaos gui
2074 - all other platforms: X windows gui
2075 - compile arguments supplied by configure script
2076 - win32: too many to list here; see documentation
2077 - cygwin: -mno-cygwin -DWIN32
2078 - MacOS X: -fpascal-strings -fno-common -arch ppc -Wno-four-char-constants
2079 -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Dmacintosh
2080 - the --with-GUINAME configure option is only needed if you want to override
2081 the default GUI. This is the only way to use the Term, RFB, and SDL
2084 - added VESA BIOS Extensions code by Jeroen Janssen (banked mode only, LFB
2086 - vga memory read/write functions in text mode fixed
2087 - implementation of CGA mode 320*200*4 (patch from Sebastien Bechet)
2089 - updated Christophe Bothamy's LGPL VGA BIOS to version 0.3a. This consists
2090 of a bug fix for function ah=13 and VBE support by Jeroen Janssen.
2092 - chipmem read/write limit fixed (Mike Lerwill)
2093 - writing a byte in 16-bit mode now possible (Mike Lerwill)
2094 - new ethertap interface for Linux, which allows Bochs to talk to
2095 the local machine and the internet (Bryce Denney)
2096 - NE2000 is now enabled by default on Win32, Cygwin, and Linux compiles
2097 in the .conf.* scripts and release binaries.
2098 - fix check for auto transmit disable, which was checking the wrong bit
2101 - niclist.exe has been revised to work on more Windows versions, and it
2102 suggests a usable ne2k line (Dean Payne)
2103 - fix timeout setting so that ne2000 does not slow down the whole
2104 simulation (Don Becker)
2105 - bug fix: be able to handle multiple packets that arrive at once
2108 - cdrom button: click this to notify Bochs when you changed the CDROM (Volker)
2109 - snapshot button: saves the text on the Bochs screen into a file called
2110 snapshot.txt (Volker)
2111 - copy button: on Win32 and X windows, copy the text on the Bochs screen
2112 to the clipboard (Volker)
2113 - paste button: on Win32 and X windows, paste the characters on the
2114 clipboard into the Bochs window. This requires keyboard_mapping to
2115 be enabled. (Bryce Denney)
2116 - improved text mode cursor for Win32, X11, and SDL (Volker)
2117 - new SDL interface (Dave Poirier, debugging by Christophe, Volker, Bryce)
2118 SDL is a graphics library that has works on many platforms. This interface
2119 is experimental, and is missing a few features of the standard Bochs
2120 interfaces: extended keys (arrows, keypad).
2121 - MacOS X: add MacOS X carbonized event handlers by Jeremy Parsons
2122 - X windows: when not enough colors can be allocated, force use of
2123 private colormap (Bryce Denney)
2124 - bug #490570 fixed: OUTB set and command 0xaa encountered (Dave Poirier)
2126 - completed keyboard emulation with the implementation of the three scancodes
2127 sets (mf1, mf2, mf3) with or without translation. This is based on Ludovic
2128 Lange's plex86 keyboard patch. (Christophe Bothamy)
2129 - added a "keyboard_type" option, that defines the answer to an "identify
2130 keybord" request to the keyboard controller. The available values are
2131 "xt","at","mf". (Christophe Bothamy)
2132 - added an optional keyboard_mapping option that enables to use your
2133 country specific keyboard with Bochs. If enabled, the keymap file must be
2134 specified in bochsrc. The available keymaps are US, German, Spanish and
2135 French for PCs running X11. Contributions are welcomed. (Christophe
2137 - added Windows(tm) key definitions (Volker Ruppert)
2138 - added paste button, which causes the emulated keyboard to type characters
2139 from the system clipboard. This only works when keyboard_mapping is
2140 enabled. (Bryce Denney)
2142 - bug fix: win32 could not read a cdrom image file
2143 - eject cd support for linux (patch from Petr Stehlik)
2145 - changing cdrom media is possible now with CDROM button
2146 - sound blaster(tm) emulation (Volker)
2147 - you can use --enable-sb16=freebsd now
2148 - 16-bit DMA controller added
2149 - 16-bit mode of the SB16 implemented (output to file works)
2150 - floppy drive (Volker Ruppert)
2151 - implementation of the floppy command 'format track'
2152 - implementation of read / write operations with MT=0
2153 - behaviour of a few floppy commands fixed
2154 - floppy reset behaviour fixed
2155 - lots of other fixes
2156 - fixed bug [ #468340 ] pic:slave: OCW3 not implemented. Now the slave PIC
2157 supports all the modes that the master PIC does, and nobody will see this
2159 - serial port (by Volker Ruppert unless noted)
2160 - improved IRQ handling
2161 - now Windows 95 serial driver works correctly
2162 - fixed the return value of the MCR (loopback bit)
2163 - interrupt reasons LSR change and MSR change implemented
2164 - the number of data bits is considered when sending data
2165 - all serial port changes are tested in loopback mode only
2166 - serial port emulation fixed for FreeBSD and OpenBSD (Stu Grossman)
2167 - fix receiver poll frequency so that it doesn't slow emulation (Stu Grossman)
2169 - when tracing, print the instruction just before it is executed, instead
2170 of just after (Greg Alexander)
2171 - after a triple-fault panic, you can now return to the debugger
2172 - symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) simulation
2173 - no more panic if you read the EOI register
2174 - fixed default destination format in local APIC
2175 - fix SMP instruction tracing in bochs debugger
2176 - fix deadlock when debugger enabled and all processors HLT
2177 - MSR support added by Zwane Mwaikambo
2178 - simulation of interrupts is more accurate (Volker)
2179 - implemented edge triggered interrupt mode
2180 - added functions raise_irq() and lower_irq()
2181 - programmable interrupt timer (Greg Alexander)
2182 - fixed the PIT gate and improved the PIT printing options
2183 - experimental real-time PIT
2184 - parallel port improvements (Volker Ruppert)
2185 - bug fix: hard disk errors caused by overflowing imul in the BIOS code.
2186 Sebastian Bechet and Peter Tattam tracked it down and fixed it.
2187 - fix some memory leaks (patch from Darko Tominac)
2188 - Double-Word IO is supported for ATA devices
2189 - fix bash-specific syntax in install-x11-fonts script
2190 - print stack_return_from_v86 error only the first 100 times
2192 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2193 Changes in 1.3 (December 10, 2001):
2194 - networking works on Windows and Linux platforms
2195 - emulated cdrom can now read from ISO image files, on any platform.
2196 - new PIT model by Greg Alexander which is much more complete than the
2197 old one. The new PIT is used by default, but you can switch back to
2198 the old one if you configure with --disable-new-pit.
2199 (PIT = 8254 programmable interrupt timer)
2200 - new configuration menus by Bryce Denney, which allow you to change any
2201 bochsrc option using text menus, then save the configuration into
2202 a new bochsrc file for later use. You can disable the new code using
2203 configure --disable-control-panel. Also you can use the command
2204 line arguments -nocp or -nocontrolpanel. Also, there is a new
2205 "Config" button on the GUI that allows limited changes to the
2206 configuration at runtime, such as changing the floppy disk.
2207 - add docbook documentation directory in the sources under doc/docbook.
2208 The transition from HTML to docbook documentation is still in progress.
2209 - Add new log action "ask", as shown in these example bochsrc lines:
2212 When an event occurs which is set to "ask", you get a beep and message
2213 on the text terminal that asks what you want to do. Choices are: continue,
2214 continue and disable future messages from this device, quit immediately,
2215 or segfault (where abort() function is available). If compiled with
2216 --enable-debugger, you can also choose to enter the debugger.
2217 - Parallel port emulation cleaned up by Volker Ruppert. See .bochsrc for
2218 syntax of new parport1 line in bochsrc.
2219 - PCI support improved by Volker Ruppert, including BIOS changes. Still
2221 - floppy controller returns a proper error response if you try to write
2222 a read-only disk image. For systems such as DOS that actually use the BIOS
2223 services, it was also necessary to add code in int13_diskette_function to
2224 recognize a write-protected error and return the correct error status code
2226 - the ROM BIOS now prints panic messages to the console. Thanks to Cliff
2227 Hones for his console display code.
2228 - the ROM BIOS detects nonbootable disks (Barry Allard), and prints a message
2229 on the console. Barry Allard's patch who helped with checking the boot
2231 - LBA support added for hard disks. (Not tested very much.)
2232 - add dependencies to makefiles
2233 - logging code moved into a separate file, logio.cc
2234 - new option --enable-slowdown-timer, by Greg Alexander, which kicks in if
2235 Bochs simulation time starts to run faster than real time. This helps to
2236 keep the Bochs clock in sync with the real clock when the CPU is mostly
2238 - new option --enable-iodebug, by Dave Poirier, which creates an I/O
2239 interface to the debugger. This lets you write software to be emulated
2240 in Bochs which can turn on instruction, register, or memory tracing
2242 - improved detection of readline in configure script
2243 - configure substitutes the version number into many files, instead of
2244 using sed in the makefile. There are still a few uses of sed remaining.
2245 - you can now use environment variables in bochsrc values. For example,
2246 diskd: file="$BOCHS_IMG/diskd.img", cyl=615, heads=6, spt=17
2247 - configure with --prefix=PATH works now
2248 - running configure from a different directory works now, thanks to
2249 a patch from Edouard G. Parmelan
2250 - fix [ #433759 ] virtual address checks can overflow.
2251 > Bochs has been crashing in some cases when you try to access data which
2252 > overlaps the segment limit, when the segment limit is near the 32-bit
2253 > boundary. The example that came up a few times is reading/writing 4 bytes
2254 > starting at 0xffffffff when the segment limit was 0xffffffff. The
2255 > condition used to compare offset+length-1 with the limit, but
2256 > offset+length-1 was overflowing so the comparison went wrong.
2257 - cmpxchg8b patch from Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com>
2258 - apply patch from Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@cygnus.com> to fix compile
2259 problems when BX_SUPPORT_PAGING and BX_USE_TLB are turned off
2260 - fix bug introduced in 1.2.1 which caused spurious exceptions.
2261 See patch #439314, Exception 1 (debug) on HALT, from
2262 thomas.petazzoni@meridon.com.
2263 - add panic in ctrl_xfer32.cc where the IRET32 implementation is broken.
2264 This only happens if you are NOT in vm8086 mode or protected mode.
2265 The intent is to warn people when they are getting bad emulation, and
2266 encourage people to report how they got to that point.
2267 - apply patch from Santiago Bazerque. See this bug report:
2268 [ #463018 ] retf not removing parameters sometimes
2269 - fix bug [ #461730 ] IRETD causes problems if NT-flag is set
2270 reported by Peter Lammich.
2271 - apply patch [ #455014 ] CR0 bug in 80486, described as:
2272 > In the register CR0, when the bit PM is enabled, the bit 4 is 0
2274 - apply patch from Mike Rieker <mrieker@o3one.org> associated with this bug
2275 report: [ #480422 ] gdt 'accessed' bit
2276 - in task_switch when it tried to ensure that the old TSS was paged in,
2277 it actually used the new TSS address, fixed.
2278 - updated the instrumentation code, and added a working example. To try
2279 it, configure --enable-instrumentation=instrument/example1. Then when
2280 you run bochs, you will get one line for each instruction PC and for
2281 each I/O access in a new file called bxevent.txt.
2282 - set a bit in the CMOS that says the processor has an FPU. This is
2283 from patch [ #455006 ] Device byte is not initialized aptly.
2284 Author did not leave their name.
2285 - add logging code to the "null ethernet" which does not require host OS
2286 support. All this does is print the outgoing packets from the guest OS.
2287 - cleanup of log functions (Todd Fries)
2288 - add BX_ERROR for every command in ATAPI-6 that bochs does not support.
2289 I still need to do add some commands from older specs that are obsolete
2290 (and not listed) in ATAPI-6. Commands that aren't in the spec will still
2292 - only put 0xf into the 2nd hard disk field when the cdrom is not present.
2293 This is a patch from Volker Ruppert <Volker.Ruppert@t-online.de>, who
2294 comments: "The fdisk command reports an unusable second harddisk if the cdrom
2295 is enabled. This patch helps, but I don't know if it is the right way."
2296 - make hard disk code return error codes when data is not available instead
2297 of just panicing. In particular, if the logical sector is out of bounds
2298 or the disk image cannot be read/written at the desired offset, we now
2299 abort the ATA command and return an error code. Many of the old BX_PANIC
2300 messages are turned to BX_ERROR, so they will still appear in the
2301 log, but now the device model will try to communicate this fact to
2302 the OS instead of simply giving up.
2303 - don't blindly reject odd length atapi commands. There are cases when
2304 it's really ok according to ATA-4.
2305 - for big endian machines, reversed the bit fields in interrupt_reason.
2306 This was pointed out by Nicholai Benalal.
2307 - extended keyboard improvements by Dave Poirier
2308 - major mouse patch from Dave Spring, that implements several missing
2310 - commit keyboard patch from David Haslam <dch@sirius.clara.co.uk>
2311 posted to mailing list, that addresses the problem of each key press
2312 printing ^@. See cvs log for details.
2313 - mouse performance fixes by Greg Alexander and Robb Main
2314 - NE2000 fixes by Frode Vatvedt Fjeld, ecelca@yahoo.com, Greg Alexander,
2315 and angelos@openbsd.org.
2316 - fix bug [ #468340 ] pic:slave: OCW3 not implemented. Some event handling
2317 code appeared in the master pic but not the slave pic.
2318 - fix compile problems in SB16 code, related to fpos_t being treated as
2320 - patch from Volker Ruppert <Volker.Ruppert@t-online.de> to fix
2321 midi output file so that winamp can play it.
2322 - some cleanup of serial code by Todd Fries and Volker Ruppert, but it
2326 - commit patch from David Haslam <dch@sirius.clara.co.uk>
2327 [ #455763 ] Cursor trail with DOS Edit/Minix vi
2328 - error for missing fonts now points to the documentation
2329 - new option --enable-idle-hack, by Roland Mainz, which makes Bochs more
2330 friendly toward other processes when its CPU is idle. Presently,
2331 this option is specific to X windows.
2334 - now Windows 95/98/ME can read the physical cdrom (Don Becker)
2335 - The default configuration for Win32 VC++, given in .conf.win32-vcpp,
2336 now enables the NE2000 and renames all .cc files to .cpp. This keeps VC++
2337 happy but may make it hard to use CVS.
2338 - The default configuration for Cygwin, given in .conf.win32-cygwin, now
2339 enables cdrom and SB16.
2340 - See "new docs" on the web site for compile instructions for VC++ and Cygwin.
2341 - The sources include a VC++ workspace, in addition to the old "nmake"
2343 - ethernet support (emulated NE2000 card), coded by Don Becker. This
2344 implementation requires a library called WinPCap, which you can
2345 download from http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap.
2346 - new utility called niclist.exe which lists the ID number of all your network
2347 cards (well probably you just have one). The ID be used when setting up your
2349 - patch [ #466403 ] make text colors more accurate. The author did not leave
2351 - fix GUI bug [ #452159 ] win32: mouse stuck if bochs win partly off screen
2352 Now we center the mouse periodically, whether or not the mouse has
2353 wandered outside of the window or not.
2354 - event handler recognizes the extended keycode flag
2355 - fixes for raw floppy and floppy disk images (Don Becker)
2358 - Ethernet (emulated NE2000 card) now works in Linux! Contributed by
2359 splite@purdue.edu. This has been tested using host OS kernel 2.2.14, and
2360 works with telnet, ftp, irc, lynx, etc. Because it is a packet filter
2361 solution, you aren't able to talk to the host machine, only to other
2362 machines on the network.
2363 - The default configuration for Linux, given in .conf.linux, now enables
2365 - RPM build process configures with --prefix=/usr so that everything is
2366 installed in /usr/bochs instead of /usr/local/bochs.
2367 - DLX Linux disk image is now installed so that only root can write it, to
2368 avoid security problems. When you run the bochs-dlx script, it creates a
2369 local copy in your home directory and then runs it.
2370 - code that determines the capacity of a cdrom now works for both ATAPI
2371 and SCSI drives (splite@purdue.edu)
2372 - applied patch from bochs@sigint.cs.purdue.edu. The comments are:
2373 > The Linux 2.4.5 CD-ROM driver sends a READ_DISC_INFO command which caused
2374 > an "unrecognized ATAPI command" panic. Looks like READ_DISC_INFO is only
2375 > recognized by CD-R and CD-RW drives, so I ignore it for now.
2377 Amiga MorphOS specific:
2378 - Bochs now compiles and works on Amiga MorphOS. Configure with
2379 --with-amigaos. For AmigaOS only, see .bochsrc for use of fullscreeen and
2380 screenmode options. The Amiga MorphsOS is written and maintained by
2381 Nicholai Benalal <nicholai@chello.se>.
2382 - raw cdrom supported if you configure with --enable-cdrom
2385 - Bochs compiles and works on BeOS. Configure with --with-beos.
2386 Bernd Thorsten Korz <bernd.korz@insidebeos.de> maintains the BeOS port.
2387 - raw cdrom supported if you configure with --enable-cdrom
2390 - Bochs now compiles and works on MacOS X. Configure with --with-carbon.
2391 Emmanuel Mailliard <e.rsz@libertysurf.fr> ported the Macintosh code to the
2393 - The MacOS X application is built using (gasp) mkdir, copy, and rez.
2394 Surely this is not the right way, but it works.
2395 - raw cdrom supported if you configure with --enable-cdrom
2398 - apply patch.rfb-mouse by MURANAKA Masaki (monaka@users.sf.net)
2399 see this source forge bug [ #457968 ] Strange mouse motion on RFB
2400 - add a retry loop in RFB code, so that if port 5900 is not available
2401 it can try 5901, etc.
2404 - do a vga update whenever you print a debugger prompt.
2405 - added debugger command "info fpu" that prints the FPU registers. If you
2406 do "info all" you get cpu and fpu registers.
2407 - added debugger command "info ne2k" which prints all the registers
2409 - add ability to do register tracing and flag tracing (Dave Poirier).
2410 Try the trace-reg-on and trace-reg-off commands.
2411 - instruction trace now includes time ticks
2412 - fixed problems in which bochs compiled with debugger measured time
2413 differently from bochs compiled without debugger. Also when instruction
2414 trace was enabled, breakpoints and control-C did not work. Also,
2415 breakpoints at the beginning of an interrupt handler did not work.
2417 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2418 Changes in 1.2.1 (June 12, 2001):
2419 - more work on makefile for building RPMs
2420 - [ #432382 ] build debian packages patch
2421 add build/debian directory from Rob Lemley <rjlemley@calypsoblue.org>
2422 which allows us to make Debian packages!
2423 - optimize for speed when simulating one processor. Now 1-processor
2424 performance should be equivalent to 1.1.2.
2425 - [ #425640 ] sb16 assumes fpos_t is long int
2426 This fixes compiles of iodev/sb16.cc on linux systems with newer libraries
2427 in which fpos_t is not an integer.
2428 - [ #432488 ] SMP:assert "n_logfn < MAX_LOGFNS" fails
2429 increase MAX_LOGFNS since we ran out of them on an SMP simulation with
2431 - changes to compile clean on cygwin:
2432 - don't use the WIN32 snprintf define for cygwin
2433 - add ssize_t definition for cygwin
2434 - only compile "struct timeval tval" if select is available
2436 - [ #432491 ] SMP: CPUID says no APIC feature
2437 clean up inconsistent use of BX_SUPPORT_APIC and BX_APIC_SUPPORT, which
2438 caused the CPUID to report no APIC was present
2439 - [ #431025 ] --enable-external-device-models broken
2440 removed configure options for external-device-models and
2441 external-cpu-memory. These don't work and aren't going to be fixed.
2442 - [ #429448 ] configure: -lreadline when not there
2443 Now configure allows you to choose not to use readline, even if it's found
2445 - [ #428915 ] apply extended keyboard patch
2446 extended keyboard patch by Dave Poirier <eks@void-core.2y.net>
2447 - [ #428626 ] if no X11 found, configure&make fails
2448 Now configure halts if X windows is selected but no X libraries are found.
2449 - updated rombios to version 1.13. This fixes several problems:
2450 - [ #430472 ] DOS HIMEM "A20 line" error
2451 This problem was apparantly caused when Bryce added a function that prints
2452 the BIOS version, and he called it too early in the boot process. Now the
2453 same function is called later, and it doesn't break the A20.
2454 - [ #431010 ] SMP structure overwritten in v1.2
2455 SMP structures were getting overwritten by BCC-generated data,
2456 preventing SMP operating systems from detecting that other processors
2458 - [ #431016 ] bios: SMP struct has wrong entry count
2459 SMP structure had the wrong entry counts
2460 - very minor doc updates (typos, replace broken link to mtools info)
2461 - quit when the user clicks the power button, even if they have disabled
2463 - win32 now defaults to having mouse capture mode turned off. For new users,
2464 it would be distressing for their mouse cursor to disappear until they
2466 - [ #428222 ] vga font not installed
2467 added script called "install-x11-fonts" which should help people install
2468 the VGA font on X windows systems, if it isn't already there.
2470 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2471 Changes in 1.2 (June 3, 2001):
2472 - [ #427259 ] rombios HALT calls don't print
2473 Fixed bios/rombios.c HALT macro so that it writes the line number of the
2474 panic to the PANIC_PORT (port 0x400) and then does NOT do a halt
2475 instruction. Also changed iodev/unmapped.cc so that the line number written
2476 to PANIC_PORT is displayed as a BX_PANIC message. Because the HALT
2477 macro now triggers the normal panic behavior, it can be controlled by
2479 - [ #429016 ] crash if no hard drive
2480 rombios used to call HALT macro if no hard drive was found. Now it only
2481 calls HALT if a hard drive has an illegal geometry.
2482 - [ #425388 ] include source for simple disk img tool
2483 [ #428478 ] mkimg tool creates image 1 byte too big
2484 Added bximage tool, which makes empty floppy and hard disk images.
2485 It is now included in the top level Makefile, so it will get built
2486 by default on all platforms.
2487 - [ #426036 ] eth_fbsd.cc compile problem on solaris26
2488 added configure test so that "configure --enable-ne2000" only
2489 includes the Berkeley Packet Filter code (eth_fbsd) if the header
2490 file <net/bpf.h> can be found. If you don't have BPF the ne2000
2491 will not actually move packets, but at least it will compile clean now.
2492 - [ #428214 ] 1.2.pre1 need documentation for binaries
2493 Write windows and linux specific documentation to be installed in
2495 - [ #429258 ] disable RESET for version 1.2
2496 Since soft reset was not completely working, I reverted the reset patch.
2497 Now it does panics on reset instead of trying to reboot, as the old
2499 - [ #428222 ] Should the linux RPM install vga font?
2500 now font/vga.pcf will be installed in the RPM package
2501 - [ #429020 ] stop renaming the BIOS!!!
2502 new BIOS changes are now in BIOS-bochs-latest, instead of a BIOS
2503 whose name changes every time we change anything! To help distinguish
2504 different BIOS versions, the BIOS now prints its RCS Id into the
2506 - [ #428625 ] compile problem if SHOW_IPS is on
2507 removed extra paren that broke SHOW_IPS
2508 - [ #428219 ] PCI doesn't compile with SMF=1
2509 - [ #429375 ] pthreads detection broken
2510 - [ #429073 ] configure: if no X11, makes bad config
2511 - [ #429229 ] install current .bochsrc in binary rels
2512 - install Tim's man pages on linux RPM
2513 - BIOS prints messages in log in case of boot failure
2514 - rewrote instructions for compiling in win32 (win32.txt)
2515 - fixed link in HTML changelog.html to point to the real sources on SF.
2516 - added missing LOG_THIS definition to gui/nogui.cc and gui/rfb.cc
2517 - added additional check for null pointer in debugger exit routine
2518 - added diskd to .bochsrc
2520 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2521 Changes in version 1.2-pre1 (May 25, 2001):
2522 - major cleanup of .bochsrc
2523 - major cleanup of stderr output: prints bochs version information when
2524 starting, and at the end it tries to print the message that caused
2526 - two hard disk support (diskd). At present, you cannot have two
2527 hard drives and a cdrom at the same time, because there is only
2528 one IDE controller with two channels.
2529 - split hard disk support allows different partitions to be stored in
2530 different image files
2531 - two new GUI choices: term mode and RFB mode. Term is a text-only
2532 interface, and RFB creates a server that can be accessed using
2533 the AT&T VNC viewer.
2534 - now Bochs can simulate an SMP machine, if you configure with
2535 --enable-processors=N. Configuring more than one processor has
2536 a major performance impact, so the default is 1 processor.
2537 See SMP documentation for more details.
2538 - to make SMP work, bx_mem and bx_cpu have been replaced with
2539 bx_mem_array[] and bx_cpu_array[]. The cpus are referenced through
2540 the BX_CPU(n) macro and memories through the BX_MEM(n). Normal
2541 mode has one cpu and one memory, SMP mode has multiple cpu's and
2542 one memory, cosimulation mode has multiple cpus and multiple memories.
2543 - use --enable-cpu-level=6 to make Bochs claim to be a Pentium Pro.
2544 The only feature that requires CPU level 6 is apic support.
2545 - new logging system by Todd Fries, which has 4 levels of event
2546 severity (panic, error, info, debug). There are new .bochsrc
2547 options that control what action to take when a
2548 panic/error/info/debug event occurs.
2549 - now searches for .bochsrc, bochsrc, bochsrc.txt, and (on unix only)
2551 - use GNU readline library if --enable-debugger is on, as long as readline
2552 can be found on the machine
2553 - configure checks for existence strtoull and strtouq. if neither exists,
2554 Bochs uses its own implementation
2555 - applied patches from Cliff Hones <cliff@aonix.co.uk> to fix up the
2556 rombios. This includes many improvements, which you can list by
2557 doing "cvs log -r 1.6 bios/rombios.c" or looking at cvsweb.
2558 - added suggested geometries of larger disks to the documentation
2559 - this is the first release to have official binary packages for win32
2560 and Linux. There is a new "make rpm" in the top-level Makefile which
2561 will create an RPM of the current bochs directory. To use this,
2562 become root and type "configure; make rpm".
2563 - applied some FreeBSD patches from Maxim Sobolev (cdrom and serial).
2565 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2566 Changes in version 1.1.2 (bugfix3, May 16, 2001):
2567 - updated Elpin VGA BIOS to version 2.40, and changed pointer in .bochsrc
2568 - fixed .conf.x86 script so that it uses c++ instead of egcs for C++ files
2569 - now Makefile targets that recurse into subdirectories use double colons,
2570 so that it will always recurse into subdirectories. Now a single make
2571 command should notice a modified source file in a subdir.
2572 - fixed bug in bx_panic. If BX_PANIC_IS_FATAL==0 and a (non-fatal) panic
2573 occurs, it used to call bx_atexit() and then return. It should never
2574 call bx_atexit, which starts to shut down the simulator, unless it's
2575 really going to quit!
2576 - support 2.88 MB floppy disks
2577 - since dataseghack is checked in as non-executable, invoke it with
2579 - double fault patch from Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@ifrance.com>,
2580 sourceforge patch #423726.
2581 - removed -fno-builtin from fpu makefiles
2582 - redefine u_char, u_short, etc. in order to not conflict with system
2583 definitions of these same types.
2584 - in cdrom.cc, remove the extern "C" { } structure around some of the
2585 header files. This is no longer necessary.
2586 - do not panic on hard disk command 0x1f2 (read sector count)
2588 - apply Todd Fries' reset patch
2589 - recognize most of the "Grey" insert/delete/home/end/etc. keys the
2590 same as keypad keys.
2591 - removed panic on "kbd_ctrl_to_kbd(): got value of 0x??"
2592 - implement mouse command 0xf6 (set defaults)
2593 - apply Suboner@aol.com's Xwindows timing patch from
2594 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=418730&group_id=12580&atid=312580
2595 - remove all patches from patches subdir which have already been applied.
2596 The remaining ones are under consideration but not applied.
2598 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2599 Changes in version 1.1.1 (bugfix2, April 9, 2001):
2600 - in soundwin.cc, arg 3 should be typecast to LPWAVEFORMATEX
2601 - in fpu_entry.c, Bryce mistyped his own initials!
2602 - in configure.in and configure, define good defaults for VC++
2603 #define BX_64BIT_CONSTANTS_USE_LL 0
2604 #define inline __inline
2605 #define BX_NO_EMPTY_STRUCTS 1
2606 #define BX_NO_ATTRIBUTES 1
2607 #define BX_HAVE_HASH_MAP 0
2608 - in config.h.in, fixed typo in #error message
2610 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
2611 Changes in version 1.1 (bugfix1, April 6, 2001):
2613 (FIXED, patch #414360: update copyrights)
2614 update headers. Change copyright to 2001, replace config.h.in header with
2615 the standard mandrake header that every other file uses.
2617 (FIXED, patch #414356: inlines)
2618 make macro to replace inline and static/extern keywords. Then make
2619 define the macro appropriately based on configure.
2621 (FIXED: patch #414234: macos-no-strdup)
2622 --with-macos should force HAVE_STRDUP=0.
2624 (FIXED, patch #403027: Fix mouse bugs in Linux and BSD)
2625 Linux and BSD (maybe others) cause panic in mouse code.
2627 (FIXED, patch #413851: const64bit patch)
2628 VC++ does not allow "LL" after 64-bit constant.
2630 (FIXED, patch #413859: fabs symbol conflict)
2631 fpu code contains fabs, which conflicts with math library fabs.
2633 (FIXED, patch #403004: Implement aborts on a few SET FEATURE commands...)
2634 Implement aborts on a few SET FEATURE commands for ATA.
2636 (FIXED, patch #402991: Update to iodev/vga.cc to add 3c3h read support)
2637 Implement VGA enable register, at 0x3c3.
2639 (FIXED, patch #403027: Fix mouse bugs in Linux and BSD)
2640 Mouse panic in linux/BSD:
2641 KBD: io write 0x64: command = 0xD3(write mouse outb)
2643 (FIXED, patch #414229: panic-is-fatal)
2644 Allow user to decide if panic is fatal, or just a warning
2646 (FIXED, patch #414230: sun-cdrom)
2649 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2650 there are cases where a pointer is cast to a 32-bit int,
2651 then later cast to a pointer and dereferenced, which crashes any 64-bit
2654 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2655 some machines have no snprintf or strtoull. include a replacement function
2658 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2659 Some compilers don't allow "typedef struct { } foo;"
2661 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2662 Some people don't have hash_map.h, used in dbg_main.cc. Disable this code
2663 if hash_map.h not found.
2665 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2666 Some compilers can't handle labels at the end of a block, as in
2667 void main () { /*code*/ label: }
2669 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2670 Most compilers can't handle __attribute__. Use macro to define it away.
2672 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2673 if --enable-debugger, turn on --enable-disasm too.
2675 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2676 ome compilers can't handle any chars after an #endif
2678 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2679 wrong type arg1 of bx_dbg_watch and bx_dbg_unwatch. The code in
2680 lexer.l was calling it with integers (not booleans)
2682 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2683 in fpu code, "setcc" macro was implemented with braces inside parens,
2684 which some compilers don't understand.
2686 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2687 in fpu_entry.c, FPU_load_int32 was consistently called with arg1 of
2688 type (s32 *), but should be (u32 *)
2690 (FIXED, patch #413574: portable1)
2691 comment out sigcontext structure in fpu/stubs/asm/sigcontext.h because
2692 it conflicted with sigcontext of other machines. This struct was never
2693 used by bochs anyway.
2695 (FIXED, patch #414046: portable2)
2696 move definition of missing library functions into osdep.h and osdep.cc,
2697 include contents of macutils*.
2699 (FIXED, patch #414061: win32-rawcd)
2700 CDROM drive letter for WIN32 should not be hardcoded.
2702 (FIXED, patch #414060: win32-rawfloppy)
2703 Bypass fstat when opening WIN32 raw floppy disk.
2705 (FIXED, patch #414226: pit-panic)
2706 WinME install dies with panic:
2707 bochs: panic, pit: outp(43h): comm Bh, mode 00, bcd 00 unhandled
2708 I think I had a similar problem. All three timers should support modes
2709 0, 2, and 3. Other modes really aren't implemented.