updates for release 2.6.1
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<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="A Window, Tux, and the BSD Daemon" width="160" height="175" align="right">
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.6</font><BR><BR>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.6.1</font><BR><BR>
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About seven months after release 2.6 we have a new intermediate (bugfix+) release.
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Here is the summary of changes :
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<li>CPU / CPUDB
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<li>Bochs is fully aligned with rev45 of the of Intel(R) Architecture Manual.
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<li>Implemented Supervisor Mode Access Protection (SMAP) support
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<li>Implemented VMX APIC Registers Virtualization and VMX Virtual Interrupt Delivery
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<li>Implemented VMCS Shadowing and #VE exception secondary VMEXIT controls emulation
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<li>Implemented RDRAND and RDSEED instructions
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</ul>
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<li>CPUDB: Added AMD FX-4100 (Zambezi) configuration to CPUDB
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<li>Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (critical fixes for SVM and AVX2 emulation)
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</ul>
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<li>Bochs Debugger and Instrumentation
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<li>Use Enhanced GUI Debugger instead of old-style wx debugger with wx gui.
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The old-style wx debugger support was deprecated and removed from the source code.
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</ul>
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<li>I/O Devices
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<li>Implemented 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card emulation based on DOSBox patch, to enable
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configure with --enable-voodoo option.
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<li>Hard drive / HD image
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<ul>
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<li>Added full save restore support for most of the disk image formats
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<li>undoable / volatile mode: added support of other types of r/o base images
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<li>DLL HD support rewritten and enabled for WIN32 host
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</ul>
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<li>PCI chipset
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<li>Implemented i430FX chipset emulation
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<li>USB UHCI always enabled in the i440FX case
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<li>Config interface
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<li>Configure option --enable-misaligned-sse moved to runtime option in .bochsrc. The old
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option is deprecated and should not be used anymore.
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<li>moved 'user_shortcut' bochsrc option to the 'keyboard' option
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<li>save log options per device to bochsrc
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<li>win32: implemented scrollable dialog items for large parameter lists
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</ul>
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<li>GUI and display libraries
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<li>Graphics snapshot feature rewritten to support all kinds of graphics modes
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<li>wx: starting a second simulation without closing Bochs now almost possible
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</ul>
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<li>Tools
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<ul>
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<li>bxcommit: added support for converting flat to growing mode images
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</ul>
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</ul>
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The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
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<ul>
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<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
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<li> devices:
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<ul>
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<li> chipset: PCI (i430FX / i440FX), ACPI
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<li> video: Bochs VBE, Cirrus SVGA and Voodoo1
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<li> sound: SB16 (ISA) and ES1370 (PCI)
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<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI) and E1000 (PCI)
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<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI, xHCI and 7 pluggable device types
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</ul>
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<li> Display libraries:
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<ul>
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<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, wx, x
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<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_1_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
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Details on what has changed since version 2.6
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</a>
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<BR/><BR/>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.6</font><BR><BR>
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About eight months after the bugfix release 2.5.1 we have a new stable release.
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Here is the summary of changes :
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@ -37,84 +124,10 @@ Here is the summary of changes :
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in the iodev folder.
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</ul>
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The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
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<ul>
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<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
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<li> devices:
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<ul>
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<li> chipset: PCI, ACPI
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<li> video: Bochs VBE and Cirrus SVGA
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<li> sound: SB16 (ISA) and ES1370 (PCI)
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<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI) and E1000 (PCI)
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<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI and 7 pluggable device types
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</ul>
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<li> Display libraries:
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<ul>
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<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, wx, x
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<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<BR>
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<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
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Details on what has changed since version 2.5.1
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</a>
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<BR/><BR/>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.5.1</font><BR><BR>
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Bochs 2.5.1 is a bugfix release. Here is the summary of changes :
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<ul>
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<li> CPU / CPUDB
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<ul>
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<li> ! Added Athlon64 (Venice) configuration to the CPUDB
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<li> BMI: fixed EFLAGS after BMI instructions
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<li> MSR: access to AMD extended MSR space was impossible due to a bug in RDMSR/WRMSR
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<li> VMX: fixed VMFUNC instruction behavior to align with Intel SDM revision 041
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<li> VMX: fixed Bochs PANIC when doing I/O access crossing VMX I/O permission bitmaps
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<li> VMX: fixed VirtualBox VMX guest Guru Meditation - FS.BASE got corrupted after
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saving/restoring unusable FS selector
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<li> VMX: fixed VirtualBox failures with VMX+EPT enabled
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<li> Better report of supported CPUID features when not using pre-defined CPUID profile
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</ul>
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<li> Debugger / Instrumentation
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<ul>
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<li> fixed typo - closing SF bug [3461405] step all command fails in SMP mode
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<li> instrumentation: added special indication for indirect call/jump
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</ul>
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<li> Configure and compile
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<li> fixed compilation err in instrumentation call (tasking.cc)
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<li> fixed compilation err with x86 hw breakpoint enabled and CPU_LEVEL < 6
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<li> fixed compilation issue under win32 --with-nogui
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<li> added missing dependencies for cdrom_osx.o
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<li> removed very old deprecated configure options from configure script
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</ul>
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<li> I/O Devices
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<ul>
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<li> fixed possible failures of PCI DMA transfers
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<li> VVFAT: several fixes in the optional write support (passes test with XP)
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<li> USB UHCI: some fixes to make it work in XP guest
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<li> removed devices 'acpi', 'ioapic' and 'pci_ide' from optional plugin control
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to avoid trouble
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</ul>
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<li> Config interface / GUI and display libraries
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<ul>
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<li> added VMX .bochsrc option to control VMX support on runtime
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<li> fix for x86-64 .bochsrc option parsing (patch from @SF)
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<li> fix for @SF bug: Crash on WIN2K - ID: 3454214
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<li> added 'nokeyrepeat' option for the SDL and win32 gui
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<BR>
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<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_5_1_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
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Details on what has changed since version 2.5
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</a>
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<BR><BR>
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