ChangeLog

Version 1.3 (December 10, 2001)

• networking works on Windows and Linux platforms
• emulated cdrom can now read from ISO image files, on any platform.
• new PIT model by Greg Alexander which is much more complete than the old one. The new PIT is used by default, but you can switch back to the old one if you configure with --disable-new-pit. (PIT = 8254 programmable interrupt timer)
• new configuration menus by Bryce Denney, which allow you to change any bochsrc option using text menus, then save the configuration into a new bochsrc file for later use. You can disable the new code using configure --disable-control-panel. Also you can use the command line arguments -nocp or -nocontrolpanel. Also, there is a new "Config" button on the GUI that allows limited changes to the configuration at runtime, such as changing the floppy disk.
• add docbook documentation directory in the sources under doc/docbook. The transition from HTML to docbook documentation is still in progress.
• Add new log action "ask", as shown in these example bochsrc lines: panic: action=ask error: action=ask When an event occurs which is set to "ask", you get a beep and message on the text terminal that asks what you want to do. Choices are: continue, continue and disable future messages from this device, quit immediately, or segfault (where abort() function is available). If compiled with --enable-debugger, you can also choose to enter the debugger.
• Parallel port emulation cleaned up by Volker Ruppert. See .bochsrc for syntax of new parport1 line in bochsrc.
• PCI support improved by Volker Ruppert, including BIOS changes. Still not complete.
• floppy controller returns a proper error response if you try to write a read-only disk image. For systems such as DOS that actually use the BIOS services, it was also necessary to add code in int13_diskette_function to recognize a write-protected error and return the correct error status code (AH=3, Carry Set).
• the ROM BIOS now prints panic messages to the console. Thanks to Cliff Hones for his console display code.
• the ROM BIOS detects nonbootable disks (Barry Allard), and prints a message on the console. Barry Allard's patch who helped with checking the boot signature.
• LBA support added for hard disks. (Not tested very much.)
• X Windows specific:
  • commit patch from David Haslam [ #455763 ] Cursor trail with DOS Edit/Minix vi
  • error for missing fonts now points to the documentation
  • new option --enable-idle-hack, by Roland Mainz, which makes Bochs more friendly toward other processes when its CPU is idle. Presently, this option is specific to X windows.
• Win32 specific:
  • now Windows 95/98/ME can read the physical cdrom (Don Becker)
  • The default configuration for Win32 VC++, given in .conf.win32-vcpp, now enables the NE2000 and renames all .cc files to .cpp. This keeps VC++ happy but may make it hard to use CVS.
  • The default configuration for Cygwin, given in .conf.win32-cygwin, now enables cdrom and SB16.
  • See "new docs" on the web site for compile instructions for VC++ and Cygwin.
  • The sources include a VC++ workspace, in addition to the old "nmake" makefile.
  • ethernet support (emulated NE2000 card), coded by Don Becker. This implementation requires a library called WinPCap, which you can download from http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap.
  • new utility called niclist.exe which lists the ID number of all your network cards (well probably you just have one). The ID be used when setting up your .bochsrc.
  • patch [ #466403 ] make text colors more accurate. The author did not leave his/her name.
  • fix GUI bug [ #452159 ] win32: mouse stuck if bochs win partly off screen Now we center the mouse periodically, whether or not the mouse has wandered outside of the window or not.
  • event handler recognizes the extended keycode flag
  • fixes for raw floppy and floppy disk images (Don Becker)
• Linux specific:
  • Ethernet (emulated NE2000 card) now works in Linux! Contributed by splite@purdue.edu. This has been tested using host OS kernel 2.2.14, and works with telnet, ftp, irc, lynx, etc. Because it is a packet filter solution, you aren't able to talk to the host machine, only to other machines on the network.
  • The default configuration for Linux, given in .conf.linux, now enables the NE2000 model.
  • RPM build process configures with --prefix=/usr so that everything is installed in /usr/bochs instead of /usr/local/bochs.
  • DLX Linux disk image is now installed so that only root can write it, to avoid security problems. When you run the bochs-dlx script, it creates a local copy in your home directory and then runs it.
  • code that determines the capacity of a cdrom now works for both ATAPI and SCSI drives (splite@purdue.edu)
  • applied patch from bochs@sigint.cs.purdue.edu. The comments are: > The Linux 2.4.5 CD-ROM driver sends a READ_DISC_INFO command which caused > an "unrecognized ATAPI command" panic. Looks like READ_DISC_INFO is only > recognized by CD-R and CD-RW drives, so I ignore it for now.
• Amiga MorphOS specific:
  • Bochs now compiles and works on Amiga MorphOS. Configure with --with-amigaos. For AmigaOS only, see .bochsrc for use of fullscreeen and screenmode options. The Amiga MorphsOS is written and maintained by Nicholai Benalal .
  • raw cdrom supported if you configure with --enable-cdrom
• BeOS specific:
  • Bochs compiles and works on BeOS. Configure with --with-beos. Bernd Thorsten Korz maintains the BeOS port.
  • raw cdrom supported if you configure with --enable-cdrom
• MacOS X specific:
  • Bochs now compiles and works on MacOS X. Configure with --with-carbon. Emmanuel Mailliard ported the Macintosh code to the Carbon API.
  • The MacOS X application is built using (gasp) mkdir, copy, and rez. Surely this is not the right way, but it works.
  • raw cdrom supported if you configure with --enable-cdrom
• RFB mode:
  • apply patch.rfb-mouse by MURANAKA Masaki (monaka@users.sf.net) see this source forge bug [ #457968 ] Strange mouse motion on RFB
  • add a retry loop in RFB code, so that if port 5900 is not available it can try 5901, etc.
• Bochs Debugger:
  • do a vga update whenever you print a debugger prompt.
  • added debugger command "info fpu" that prints the FPU registers. If you do "info all" you get cpu and fpu registers.
  • added debugger command "info ne2k" which prints all the registers of the NE2000 model
  • add ability to do register tracing and flag tracing (Dave Poirier). Try the trace-reg-on and trace-reg-off commands.
  • instruction trace now includes time ticks
  • fixed problems in which bochs compiled with debugger measured time differently from bochs compiled without debugger. Also when instruction trace was enabled, breakpoints and control-C did not work. Also, breakpoints at the beginning of an interrupt handler did not work.
• add dependencies to makefiles
• logging code moved into a separate file, logio.cc
• new option --enable-slowdown-timer, by Greg Alexander, which kicks in if Bochs simulation time starts to run faster than real time. This helps to keep the Bochs clock in sync with the real clock when the CPU is mostly idle.
• new option --enable-iodebug, by Dave Poirier, which creates an I/O interface to the debugger. This lets you write software to be emulated in Bochs which can turn on instruction, register, or memory tracing using I/O accesses.
• improved detection of readline in configure script
• configure substitutes the version number into many files, instead of using sed in the makefile. There are still a few uses of sed remaining.
• you can now use environment variables in bochsrc values. For example, diskd: file="$BOCHS_IMG/diskd.img", cyl=615, heads=6, spt=17
• configure with --prefix=PATH works now
• running configure from a different directory works now, thanks to a patch from Edouard G. Parmelan
• fix [ #433759 ] virtual address checks can overflow. > Bochs has been crashing in some cases when you try to access data which > overlaps the segment limit, when the segment limit is near the 32-bit > boundary. The example that came up a few times is reading/writing 4 bytes > starting at 0xffffffff when the segment limit was 0xffffffff. The > condition used to compare offset+length-1 with the limit, but > offset+length-1 was overflowing so the comparison went wrong.
• cmpxchg8b patch from Michael Hohmuth
• apply patch from Thomas Fitzsimmons to fix compile problems when BX_SUPPORT_PAGING and BX_USE_TLB are turned off
• fix bug introduced in 1.2.1 which caused spurious exceptions. See patch #439314, Exception 1 (debug) on HALT, from thomas.petazzoni@meridon.com.
• add panic in ctrl_xfer32.cc where the IRET32 implementation is broken. This only happens if you are NOT in vm8086 mode or protected mode. The intent is to warn people when they are getting bad emulation, and encourage people to report how they got to that point.
• apply patch from Santiago Bazerque. See this bug report: [ #463018 ] retf not removing parameters sometimes
• fix bug [ #461730 ] IRETD causes problems if NT-flag is set reported by Peter Lammich.
• apply patch [ #455014 ] CR0 bug in 80486, described as: > In the register CR0, when the bit PM is enabled, the bit 4 is 0 > when should be 1.
• apply patch from Mike Rieker associated with this bug report: [ #480422 ] gdt 'accessed' bit
• in task_switch when it tried to ensure that the old TSS was paged in, it actually used the new TSS address, fixed.
• updated the instrumentation code, and added a working example. To try it, configure --enable-instrumentation=instrument/example1. Then when you run bochs, you will get one line for each instruction PC and for each I/O access in a new file called bxevent.txt.
• set a bit in the CMOS that says the processor has an FPU. This is from patch [ #455006 ] Device byte is not initialized aptly. Author did not leave their name.
• add logging code to the "null ethernet" which does not require host OS support. All this does is print the outgoing packets from the guest OS.
• cleanup of log functions (Todd Fries)
• add BX_ERROR for every command in ATAPI-6 that bochs does not support. I still need to do add some commands from older specs that are obsolete (and not listed) in ATAPI-6. Commands that aren't in the spec will still panic.
• only put 0xf into the 2nd hard disk field when the cdrom is not present. This is a patch from Volker Ruppert , who comments: "The fdisk command reports an unusable second harddisk if the cdrom is enabled. This patch helps, but I don't know if it is the right way."
• make hard disk code return error codes when data is not available instead of just panicing. In particular, if the logical sector is out of bounds or the disk image cannot be read/written at the desired offset, we now abort the ATA command and return an error code. Many of the old BX_PANIC messages are turned to BX_ERROR, so they will still appear in the log, but now the device model will try to communicate this fact to the OS instead of simply giving up.
• don't blindly reject odd length atapi commands. There are cases when it's really ok according to ATA-4.
• for big endian machines, reversed the bit fields in interrupt_reason. This was pointed out by Nicholai Benalal.
• extended keyboard improvements by Dave Poirier
• major mouse patch from Dave Spring, that implements several missing mouse modes.
• commit keyboard patch from David Haslam posted to mailing list, that addresses the problem of each key press printing ^@. See cvs log for details.
• mouse performance fixes by Greg Alexander and Robb Main
• NE2000 fixes by Frode Vatvedt Fjeld, ecelca@yahoo.com, Greg Alexander, and angelos@openbsd.org.
• fix bug [ #468340 ] pic:slave: OCW3 not implemented. Some event handling code appeared in the master pic but not the slave pic.
• fix compile problems in SB16 code, related to fpos_t being treated as an integer.
• patch from Volker Ruppert to fix midi output file so that winamp can play it.
• some cleanup of serial code by Todd Fries and Volker Ruppert, but it doesn't work yet.

Version 1.2.1 (June 12, 2001)

• more work on makefile for building RPMs
• [ #432382 ] build debian packages patch
  add build/debian directory from Rob Lemley which allows us to make Debian packages!
• optimize for speed when simulating one processor. Now 1-processor performance should be equivalent to 1.1.2.
• [ #425640 ] sb16 assumes fpos_t is long int
  This fixes compiles of iodev/sb16.cc on linux systems with newer libraries in which fpos_t is not an integer.
• [ #432488 ] SMP:assert "n_logfn < MAX_LOGFNS" fails
  increase MAX_LOGFNS since we ran out of them on an SMP simulation with 4 processors
• changes to compile clean on cygwin:
  • don't use the WIN32 snprintf define for cygwin
  • add ssize_t definition for cygwin
  • only compile "struct timeval tval" if select is available on that platform.
• [ #432491 ] SMP: CPUID says no APIC feature
  clean up inconsistent use of BX_SUPPORT_APIC and BX_APIC_SUPPORT, which caused the CPUID to report no APIC was present
• [ #431025 ] --enable-external-device-models broken
  removed configure options for external-device-models and external-cpu-memory. These don't work and aren't going to be fixed.
• [ #429448 ] configure: -lreadline when not there
  Now configure allows you to choose not to use readline, even if it's found on your system.
• [ #428915 ] apply extended keyboard patch
  extended keyboard patch by Dave Poirier
• [ #428626 ] if no X11 found, configure&make fails
  Now configure halts if X windows is selected but no X libraries are found.
• updated rombios to version 1.13. This fixes several problems:
  • [ #430472 ] DOS HIMEM "A20 line" error
    This problem was apparantly caused when Bryce added a function that prints the BIOS version, and he called it too early in the boot process. Now the same function is called later, and it doesn't break the A20.
  • [ #431010 ] SMP structure overwritten in v1.2
    SMP structures were getting overwritten by BCC-generated data, preventing SMP operating systems from detecting that other processors were available.
  • [ #431016 ] bios: SMP struct has wrong entry count SMP structure had the wrong entry counts
• very minor doc updates (typos, replace broken link to mtools info)
• quit when the user clicks the power button, even if they have disabled panics.
• win32 now defaults to having mouse capture mode turned off. For new users, it would be distressing for their mouse cursor to disappear until they pressed F12.
• [ #428222 ] vga font not installed
  added script called "install-x11-fonts" which should help people install the VGA font on X windows systems, if it isn't already there.

Version 1.2 (June 3, 2001)

• [ #427259 ] rombios HALT calls don't print
  Fixed bios/rombios.c HALT macro so that it writes the line number of the panic to the PANIC_PORT (port 0x400) and then does NOT do a halt instruction. Also changed iodev/unmapped.cc so that the line number written to PANIC_PORT is displayed as a BX_PANIC message. Because the HALT macro now triggers the normal panic behavior, it can be controlled by the bochsrc.
• [ #429016 ] crash if no hard drive
  rombios used to call HALT macro if no hard drive was found. Now it only calls HALT if a hard drive has an illegal geometry.
• [ #425388 ] include source for simple disk img tool
  [ #428478 ] mkimg tool creates image 1 byte too big Added bximage tool, which makes empty floppy and hard disk images. It is now included in the top level Makefile, so it will get built by default on all platforms.
• [ #426036 ] eth_fbsd.cc compile problem on solaris26
  added configure test so that "configure --enable-ne2000" only includes the Berkeley Packet Filter code (eth_fbsd) if the header file can be found. If you don't have BPF the ne2000 will not actually move packets, but at least it will compile clean now.
• [ #428214 ] 1.2.pre1 need documentation for binaries
  Write windows and linux specific documentation to be installed in binary releases.
• [ #429258 ] disable RESET for version 1.2
  Since soft reset was not completely working, I reverted the reset patch. Now it does panics on reset instead of trying to reboot, as the old bochs versions did.
• [ #428222 ] Should the linux RPM install vga font?
  now font/vga.pcf will be installed in the RPM package
• [ #429020 ] stop renaming the BIOS!!!
  new BIOS changes are now in BIOS-bochs-latest, instead of a BIOS whose name changes every time we change anything! To help distinguish different BIOS versions, the BIOS now prints its RCS Id into the log file.
• [ #428625 ] compile problem if SHOW_IPS is on
  removed extra paren that broke SHOW_IPS
• [ #428219 ] PCI doesn't compile with SMF=1
• [ #429375 ] pthreads detection broken
• [ #429073 ] configure: if no X11, makes bad config
• [ #429229 ] install current .bochsrc in binary rels
• install Tim's man pages on linux RPM
• BIOS prints messages in log in case of boot failure
• rewrote instructions for compiling in win32 (win32.txt)
• fixed link in HTML changelog.html to point to the real sources on SF.
• added missing LOG_THIS definition to gui/nogui.cc and gui/rfb.cc
• added additional check for null pointer in debugger exit routine
• added diskd to .bochsrc

Version 1.2-pre1 (May 25, 2001)

• major cleanup of .bochsrc
• major cleanup of stderr output: prints bochs version information when starting, and at the end it tries to print the message that caused bochs to quit.
• two hard disk support (diskd). At present, you cannot have two hard drives and a cdrom at the same time, because there is only one IDE controller with two channels.
• split hard disk support allows different partitions to be stored in different image files
• two new GUI choices: term mode and RFB mode. Term is a text-only interface, and RFB creates a server that can be accessed using the AT&T VNC viewer.
• now Bochs can simulate an SMP machine, if you configure with --enable-processors=N. Configuring more than one processor has a major performance impact, so the default is 1 processor. See SMP documentation for more details.
• to make SMP work, bx_mem and bx_cpu have been replaced with bx_mem_array[] and bx_cpu_array[]. The cpus are referenced through the BX_CPU(n) macro and memories through the BX_MEM(n). Normal mode has one cpu and one memory, SMP mode has multiple cpu's and one memory, cosimulation mode has multiple cpus and multiple memories.
• use --enable-cpu-level=6 to make Bochs claim to be a Pentium Pro. The only feature that requires CPU level 6 is apic support.
• new logging system by Todd Fries, which has 4 levels of event severity (panic, error, info, debug). There are new .bochsrc options that control what action to take when a panic/error/info/debug event occurs.
• now searches for .bochsrc, bochsrc, bochsrc.txt, and (on unix only) $HOME/.bochsrc.
• use GNU readline library if --enable-debugger is on, as long as readline can be found on the machine
• configure checks for existence strtoull and strtouq. if neither exists, Bochs uses its own implementation
• applied patches from Cliff Hones to fix up the rombios. This includes many improvements, which you can list by doing "cvs log -r 1.6 bios/rombios.c" or looking at cvsweb.
• added suggested geometries of larger disks to the documentation
• this is the first release to have official binary packages for win32 and Linux. There is a new "make rpm" in the top-level Makefile which will create an RPM of the current bochs directory. To use this, become root and type "configure; make rpm".
• applied some FreeBSD patches from Maxim Sobolev (cdrom and serial).

Version 1.1.2 (bugfix3) (May 16, 2001)

• FPU is now compiled in by default.
• updated Elpin VGA BIOS to version 2.40, and changed pointer in .bochsrc
• fixed .conf.x86 script so that it uses c++ instead of egcs for C++ files
• now Makefile targets that recurse into subdirectories use double colons, so that it will always recurse into subdirectories. Now a single make command should notice a modified source file in a subdir.
• fixed bug in bx_panic. If BX_PANIC_IS_FATAL==0 and a (non-fatal) panic occurs, it used to call bx_atexit() and then return. It should never call bx_atexit, which starts to shut down the simulator, unless it's really going to quit!
• support 2.88 MB floppy disks (Todd Fries)
• since dataseghack is checked in as non-executable, invoke it with "csh dataseghack"
• double fault patch from Thomas Petazzoni < thomas.petazzoni@ifrance.com >, sourceforge patch #423726.
• removed -fno-builtin from fpu makefiles
• redefine u_char, u_short, etc. in order to not conflict with system definitions of these same types.
• in cdrom.cc, remove the extern "C" { } structure around some of the header files. This is no longer necessary.
• do not panic on hard disk command 0x1f2 (read sector count)
• in keyboard.cc:
  • apply Todd Fries' reset patch
  • recognize most of the "Grey" insert/delete/home/end/etc. keys the same as keypad keys.
  • removed panic on "kbd_ctrl_to_kbd(): got value of 0x??"
  • implement mouse command 0xf6 (set defaults)
• apply Suboner@aol.com's Xwindows timing patch, #418730.
• remove all patches from patches subdir which have already been applied. The remaining ones are under consideration but not applied.

Version 1.1.1 (bugfix2) (April 9, 2001)

• fixed type error in win32 soundwin.cc, added typecast to (LPWAVEFORMATEX)
• now configure --with-win32-vcpp provides correct #defines for VC++

Version 1.1 bugfix1 (April 6, 2001)

• This was the first SourceForge release by Bryce Denney, with patches from many sources on the bochs-developers list.
• add BX_PANIC_IS_FATAL option.
  WARNING: Due to a implementation bug, nonfatal panics can create problems. If you need to use BX_PANIC_IS_FATAL=0, move the bx_atexit() after the return line. This problem was corrected in CVS after 5/2/2001, and appears in version 1.1.2 and later.
• win32:
  • CDROM drive letter is no longer hardcoded
  • bypass fstat when opening WIN32 raw floppy disk
• device models:
  • support sun cdrom
  • mouse: fix panics on 0xd3, 0xeb commands
  • harddrv: implement aborts on a few SET FEATURE commands
  • vga: implement VGA enable register 0x3c3
  • pit: allow modes 0,2,3 on any timer
• many portability fixes
  • fix compile problems in FPU related to inline keyword
  • configure checks if compiler allows "LL" for 64-bit constant
  • renamed fpu function fabs, conflicts with math library
  • fix pointer crashes in FPU on 64-bit machines
  • provide libc functions snprintf, strtoull if missing
  • check if compiler allows __attribute__
  • comment out sigcontext struct definition because it conflicted with sigcontext on host system

bochs-2000_0315

• Kevin removed all references to Bochs Software Company and "this is commercial software," and replaced them with Mandrake copyrights and LGPL.

bochs-2000_0104c

• FPU mods:
  • Integrated new FPU emulator mods from Bill Metzenthen.
  • Bill ported x86 specific assembly files to C.
  • I helped port the FPU emulator to work on big-endian machines. (tested on SPARC so far)
  • The FPU emulator is now integrated into the main bochs source code (in fpu/) for ease of compilation.
  • Tested on x86 and SPARC.
  • The '--enable-fpu' option no longer needs an argument.

bochs-991114a

• CDROM emulation works on win32.  Mods from Nick Behnken.
• Cleaned up some problems with win32 compile with VC++.
• Fixed ::call_protected() for protected mode call to same level via call gate.

bochs-991107c

• Sound Blaster 16 emulation.
  • Integrated Sound Blaster 16 emulation from Josef Drexler.
  • Check out sound.html for SB16 notes.
  • Added configure option --enable-sb16=.
• Started work on special guest driver to host interface, which will ultimately be used by disk/video/network etc drivers to enhance performance in bochs.  Not usable yet.

bochs-991102a

• NT4.0 installs in bochs (Pentium+FPU+CDROM options).
• Please wait until next release for running NT unless you really need it.
• Created (incomplete) docs-html/guestNT.html to outline process of installing NT4.0 in bochs.
• More fixes to ::exception().
• Fixes to ::stack_return_to_v86().
• Mods to configure to handle win32 config again.
• Integrates mods from win32 developers.
• vga.cc handles variable number of lines in text mode.   Updated GUI code for all platforms, to receive number of lines of text in ::text_update().

bochs-991023a

• Integrated diffs submitted for OpenBSD cdrom support.
• Fixed up v8086 mode and exception handling.
• Fixed real-mode handling of IOPL flag WRT POPF/IRET.
• Fixed handling of a bunch of weird 16/32-bit transitions.  In the doing, I ended up recoding the following:
  • Recoded ::exception()
  • Recoded ::interrupt()
  • Recoded ::task_switch()
• Cleaned up most warnings.
• Added docs-html/codingguidelines.html. Please peruse it, if you are a code submitter, and would like to comply with my code tyranny. :^)
• Integrated new submitted Mac build files and gui code.
• Have a few more issues to take care of before playing in the dynamic translation sandbox again.

bochs-991014a

• CDROM emulation:
  • New ./configure option '--enable-cdrom'. So far, there is only support for Linux.
  • I created a Linux specific CDROM component. Mostly just ioctl()s needed to access a few functions of the cdrom.
  • Created 'iodev/cdrom.cc' and 'iodev/cdrom.h' which contain the low-level code. Essentially, all the OS specific code is contained in these files.
  • Should be fairly easy to add code for other OSes.
  • Use .bochsrc directive 'cdromd: dev=/dev/cdrom, status=inserted'.
  • Will add an icon for cdrom to the UI later.
  • Tested cdrom emulation running Linux in bochs. Use something like 'mount -r /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom'. Haven't checked out using it in Windows yet.

bochs-991012a

• Moved default cpu level to Pentium.
• Created docs-html/configure.html to explain options to configure.
• Fixes to high-level CDROM support.
• Added optional x86 hardware debug support:
  • '--enable-x86-debugger' is a new option to ./configure.
  • This is the debug support offered by an x86 CPU, not the native bochs debugger.
  • Added instruction and data breakpoint capabilities.
  • Added proper RF handling with or without hw debugging.
  • You can configure without this option for more speed.
• FWAIT now calls FPU emulator like it should.
• Changes to LMSW.
• Moved a bunch of initial stderr messages to bochs.out.
• More Pentium behaviour enhancements.
• Modified HLT instruction.
• GRUB now works in bochs and can load programs.
• Compiled a new wm-FPU-emu version for this bochs version (only very minor mods).
• Work on further Pentium emulation continues...

bochs-991004a

• Added partial Pentium emulation:
  • --enable-cpu-level=5 is now possible from ./configure.
  • Default level still at 4 without above option.
  • Win'95 boots and recognizes Pentium emulation.
  • Linux boots and recognizes Pentium emulation.
• Work on further Pentium emulation continues...

bochs-990925a

• Generated new BIOS (bios/BIOS-bochs-990925a).
• Fix to mouse BIOS code (int15h:c2:06:00). The use of local code block/variables is not handled correctly by the bcc compiler. Removed braces, and moved local variable to top level of function.
• Fix to extended mem access BIOS function (int15h:87). This was killing Minix.
• Fix to floppy.cc, was reading one extra sector.
• Fix to Makefiles etc for compiling without floating point.
• Minix boots again inside bochs. Though, the keyboard code is not yet right for running Minix. For some reason, if you comment out the 2 keyboard ACKs at lines 947 and 966 in iodev/keyboard.cc, it works.

bochs-990923a

• Fixes to vga.cc for odd VGA graphics modes. Even the Windows'95 splash screen works now! (Craig Ballantyne)
• Addition of postfix expression evaluator in the debugger. (Hanish Menon)
• Support for 1.76MB floppies. (Hanish Menon)
• Bug fix for debugger. (Hanish Menon)

bochs-990920a

• Fixed bug in crc command from debug prompt
• Bochs now can be compiled to use wm-FPU-emu, the x87 FPU emulator included in the Linux kernel. It was written by Bill Metzenthen. Look in fpu.html for more info. Added "--enable-fpu=" to configure. For now, this will only work on x86, since wm-FPU-emu has some assembly components.
• Coded illegal instruction exception for old XBTS and IBTS opcodes.
• Moved default cpu level to 486.
• Decoupled main web page from user documentation in "docs-html".

bochs-990907a

• Fixed bug in rombios.c, new bios is bios/BIOS-bochs-990907a
• Commented out load32bitOSImage directive in .bochsrc, should not have been left uncommented.
• Working on Pentium emulation next...

bochs-990708a

• integrated submitted mods to BeOS gui stuff
• integrated ne2k emulation (only FreeBSD low-level implemented)
• integrated mega patches which allow bochs to boot and run NT4/SP4 (simulating a 486sx)
  • - Magic breakpoint
  • - IDE CD-ROM (needs low-level OS stuff for all OSs)
  • - Current time in time0
  • - Instruction based simulation clock
  • - Time breakpoints
  • - Bios improvements [rombios-new.c]
  • - Read/write breakpoints
  • - Mode switch breakpoints
  • - Bugfixes in iret
  • - Bugfixes in the fetch/decode tables
  • - CPUID instruction implemented
  • - Additional support for the AC and ID bits
  • - Intel division 'emulation'
  • - Floating point fixes
  • - INVLPG instruction implemented
  • - Read-modify-write fault behavior fix
  • - Paging bugfixes
  • - Minor LES fix
  • - Interrupt handling bugfix
  • - V86 mode bugfixes
  • - Debugger bugfixes
  • - Sync on cpu implemented
  • - Sync on memory implemented
  • - New debugger commands:
    • trace-on
    • trace-off
    • ptime
    • sb
    • sba
    • diff-memory
    • sync-memory
    • sync-cpu
    • fast-forward
    • info-addr
    • record
    • playback
    • modebp
    • where
    • print-string
    • show
    • print-stack
    • load-symbols
    • watch
    • unwatch
    • phy2log
    • force-check
  • - Mouse support through PS/2 interface
  • - IDE improvements and bugfixes
  • - External disk simulation interface
  • - Keyboard bugfixes
  • - Mouse support in the X11 gui
  • - Improved debug support in I/O devices
  • - VGA improvements and bugfixes
• New .bochsrc directives: "time0", "magic_break", "ne2k", "cdromd".
• Task switch bug fixed
• Integrated Mac port enhancements

bochs-990312b

• (ftp://ftp.bochs.com/pub/DT/bochs-990312b.tar.gz)
• First teaser release with dynamic translation framework!
• Only a few instructions translated, but the framework is coming along nicely. Read "readme.990312b" in the ftp directory above for more info. I include some preliminary performance tests, and you can benchmark bochs with dynamic translation on your own machine.
• Many more optimizations are possible.
• Here's an excerpt from the readme file:

           dynamic translation:        interpreter:
  -------------------------------------------------
  dttest1:      2.4Mips                  1.9Mips
  dttest2:     15.0Mips                  3.2Mips
  dttest3:     10.5Mips                  3.5Mips
  dttest4:     21.2Mips                  3.1Mips
  

bochs-990219a

• Converted all read-modify-write instructions to use RMW versions of write_virtual_xyz() & read_virtual_xyz().
• Addition of Linux/PPC to successful port matrix.
• Dynamic translation framework is coming along nicely, but not included here yet. I'll include it soon in an upcoming release.
• Roadrunner OS booted.
• Integrated many patches from bochs users:
  • Floppy: change line support.
  • Beos: BX_KEY_{LEFT,RIGHT}_ARROW, omitted _ARROW.
  • Bochs port to Cygwin32 without cygnus layer (pure win32 mode).
  • New version of win32.cc, fixes to fetchdecode.cc for win32.
  • Fixes to keyboard.
  • Fixes to X11 cursor problem.
  • Added --enable-port-e9-hack for sending port output to console.
  • New version of macintosh.cc.
  • Changes to allow quoting pathnames in .bochsrc so you can have filenames with spaces.
  • Harddrv.cc: implemented command 0x21 as 0x20.

bochs-990127d

• Rehashed CPU code in preparation for dynamic translation.
  • Fetch-decode, address resolve, and execute phases are all distinct now.
  • Each instruction gets it's parameters from a pointer to a structure passed to it.
• Added '--enable-time0' option to configure. Use this only if you want to always start the cmos clock at the same value every time. This is valuable for reproducable runs. It was invaluable to me during cosimulation of this version of bochs against an older one to find bugs.
• Fix in cpu/paging.cc. Set all segment register descriptor caches to invalid, until they were properly loaded.

bochs-990110b

• Fixed handling of CR0.val32 shadow to individual flags. Oops, I goofed in bochs-990110a.
• Redhat 5.2 boot floppy image works again.
• Incorporated new serial port diffs.
• Configure senses if you have select(). New macro BX_HAVE_SELECT.
• Added future configure option '--enable-dynamic-translation'. Don't use this, as its not yet supported.

bochs-990110a

• Direct floppy disk access fix. I was only checking if file was a character-special file. Added check for block-special file.
• Minor fixes for Macintosh platform.
• Small changes to compile bochs on BeOS R4 for x86 using gcc.
• Fix to timer framework code in pc_system.cc.
• Fix to iodev/floppy.cc, was using AND instead of OR.
• Fix to handling of IOPL flag in real-mode.
• change CR0 reserved bits handling to model actual x86
• added .conf.beos-x86-R4 script
• completely rehashed INT 1A BIOS time-of-day services.
• LOADLIN.EXE no longer complains about being in v86 mode.

bochs-981229a

• Changed configure option '--with-win32-vc50' to '--with-win32-vcpp'
• Changed script file '.conf.win32-vc50' to '.conf.win32-vcpp'
• Integrated Macintosh port of bochs by David Batterham
  • Added '--with-macos' option to configure.
  • Updated web pages with pointer to MacBochs site and local info.

bochs-981222a

• Generated new bios 'bios/BIOS-bochs-981222a'
• Serial port: integrated diffs I received which implement a single 8259 UART with IO attached to console
• Partially integrated mods from some limited i440fx PCI support
  • A few more mods to integrate, DON'T USE YET
  • Added '--enable-pci' to ./configure and BX_PCI_SUPPORT macro
  • Added 'i440fxsupport: enabled=' option to .bochsrc
• Added settable BX_SHADOW_RAM macro to config.h.in, in case your software counts on C0000..FFFFF being writable.
• Added 'cmosimage:' option to .bocshrc. If you use this, an image file is read into CMOS registers upon startup. Then certain values are written over, as the IO devices initialize. Not complete yet. DON'T USE YET
• Added 'newharddrivesupport: enabled=' option to .bochsrc. Set this to 0 or 1. If set to 1, some new hard drive commands are accepted and some behaviour is changed per some diffs I received. After I have time to look at these more, I'll integrate them permanently and get rid of this option.
• Some fixes to keyboard/floppy/hard-drive support.
• Rehashed the CMOS code. Now support the RTC, interval timer and alarm clock. This code has not been tested properly.
• Rehashed the bochs native timer support which some of the IO devices use.

bochs-981102b

• Rehashed paging.cc and TLB. Fixed problem with dirty bit not being set after a read operation cached an entry in the TLB. Also, added in legwork for supporting 486+ syle paging behaviour for use with OS's which have copy-on-write strategies.

bochs-981015a

• cosimulation support for verifying a 2nd CPU simulator (lot's of files touched)
• moved web pages and ftp to bochs.com
• developer's email list now hosted by RedHat
• planning dynamic translation