The latest release is from 2001 and it will not work on modern Linux systems.
Parts of the SVGALib code have been moved to the Linux kernel and the X11 and
SDL libraries are using it as a video driver.
The ethertap driver has been declared obsolete a long time ago and it has been
removed in Linux kernel version 3.x. The successor service TUN/TAP is supported
by Bochs. The source file and the BX_NETMOD_TAP symbol appearance may be removed
before next release.
- Added case for "*-msys" to the existing "*.mingw*" cases.
- Fixed $JADE value in case the program is not installed.
- Fixed RedirectIOToConsole() function for MSYS with 64-bit gcc 9.2.
- Use 'iasl' for building ACPI table if present.
- Use the release date from README file for the BIOS_BUILD_DATE.
- Added Bochs VERSION string to the BIOS banner.
- Fixed the rombios32 delay loop for QEMU build.
- Improvement for rombios32.ld.
- The pthread library is not needed at all by the Windows ports.
- Link the ALSA and SDL sound modules only with required library.
- Fixed curses cross-compilation issue found by Debian.
- slirp/cksum.cc: NOTE for Debian.
Only missing items (to be added soon):
- Supervisor Shadow Stack EPT Control is not implemented yet
- SMM placing for SSP
Currently have to be added manually to some CPUID model, for example to ICL-U
To enable configure with --enable-cet
- Get rid of VER_STRING since it's the same as VERSION
- Add new defines VER_MAJOR, VER_MINOR, VER_PATCH and VER_SVN and use them for
the version number on Windows.
- TODO: Add the capability to detect installed version to the Windows installer.
- if wxGTK uses GTK 3.x, also use it for the gui debugger to avoid trouble
- the name of the include file for GDK keysyms now depends on GDK version, so
the temporary translation table can be removed
- small fix to compile the gui debugger with GTK 3.x (warnings still exist)
- configure script now supports wxGTK 3.1 (using GTK 3.0).
- added workaround for GDK keysym name change.
- define deprecated WXWIN symbol wxADJUST_MINSIZE for compatibility.
- compilation fix for Linux in the slirp code.
- Removed "pseudo device plugin" containing common code and all connectable
USB devices.
- Moved USB device base class and module handling to the Bochs core.
Now loading USB device plugins in usb_common.cc.
- Created separate plugins for each USB device implementation.
- Modified Bochs plugin system to support new plugin type PLUGTYPE_USBDEV.
- Added entries for the non-plugin case similar to the network and sound stuff.
- Created framework based on our I/O APIC code and ported HPET core from Qemu
with some required changes for the Bochs timer and IRQ handling.
- Enabled HPET-specific code in the ACPI and rombios32 sources and generated
new ACPI table with iasl.
- The HPET device plugin is now always loaded if the i440FX chipset is selected
(same as ACPI). We have to rethink this when we have implemented a more
modern chipset.
- TODO: Rewrite of the virtual timer code for nanosecond support to make the
realtime synchronization possible with HPET.
- Added warnings for currently not maintained features in the configure script,
the bochsrc sample and the user doc.
- Removed detection of deprecated bochsrc options "i440fxsupport" and
"vga_update_interval".
- Legacy bochsrc option "user_shortcut" is now deprecated.
- Removed deprecated configure option --enable-misaligned-sse from user doc.
- Updated some TODO items.
- Makefile: cleanup of the 'clean' target (adds missing 'bxhub').
- configure script: create cpudb subdirectories if necessary for building
outside of the source tree.
- cpudb Makefile: clean object files from new location.
- Removed "pseudo device plugin" containing common code and specific drivers.
- Moved network module base classes and module handling to the Bochs core.
Now loading network driver plugins in netmod.cc.
- Moved shared networking code used by the 'vnet' driver and 'bxhub' from
netmod.cc/.h to new files netutil.cc/.h.
- Created separate plugins for each network driver implementation.
- Modified Bochs plugin system to support new plugin type PLUGTYPE_NETWORK.
external program 'bxhub' (simulating a two port ethernet hub). It is based on
an old SF patch and it has been updated and extended:
- Windows support (tested with MinGW/MSYS and MSVC nmake).
- Command line arguments for 'bxhub' (base port number, MAC address, TFTP).
- Added support for DHCP, TFTP, ARP and ICMP echo (ping). It uses parts of the
code for the 'vnet' module with some additions from the former "slirp backend".
- TODO: code cleanup to reduce duplication, rewrite of the networking plugins
stuff similar to the work done with the sound drivers.
- Renamed OSS sound driver files from soundlnx.cc/.h to soundoss.cc/.h.
- Removed "pseudo device plugin" containing common code and specific drivers.
- Moved common sound code, base classes of sound drivers and the dummy driver
to the Bochs core. Now loading sound driver plugins in soundmod.cc.
- Created separate plugins for the platform/library specific drivers and the
"file" driver.
- Modified Bochs plugin system to support now plugin type PLUGTYPE_SOUND.
either libsamplerate or the SoX resampler library installed. If not installed,
the data is only copied to the output buffer and sample rate of the output
driver is changed similar to legacy code. Related changes:
- Added check for libsamplerate or SoX resampler header files in configure
script.
- Added functions for converting source format to float (requied by resampler)
and float to output format.
- Added support for float type data in the audio buffer code. Buffer chain #0
receives float data from sendwavepacket() and buffer #1 receives data for
mixing and output in format "16-bit signed little endian stereo".
- ALSA: Disable builtin resampling feature if resampler is present to avoid
doing it twice.
- added Android case to the configure script.
- renamed file memory.h to memory-bochs.h to fix conflict with NDK.
- fixed Android issues in some files.
