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<TITLE>bochs: The Open Source IA-32 Emulation Project (About Bochs 2.0)</TITLE>
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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>Bochs 2.0 is
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Coming!</b></font><BR>
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This page describes the latest progress as we move toward releasing Bochs 2.0.
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Please check it periodically, because it will change regularly.
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>What's new?
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</b></font><BR>
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Our last release was Bochs 1.4.1 on June 23 of this year. Since then there
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has been a LOT of development activity, especially since mid-August. Here's
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a summary.
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<li> CPU optimizations boost simulation speed by around 2x. (Kevin Lawton)
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<li> Bochs now supports up to 8 hard drives, or 8 CDROMs, or any combination
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(Christophe Bothamy)
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<li> wxWindows interface has grown so that you can edit all bochsrc
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parameters using menus and dialog boxes (Bryce Denney)
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<li> Bochs can now emulate the AMD x86-64 instruction set used in their Hammer processor (Peter Tattam)
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<li> Bochs can now emulate MMX instructions (Stanislav Shwartzman).
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<li> Remote GDB stub support (Johan Rydberg, Stu Grossman)
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<li> IN PROGRESS: Stanislav is currently working on SSE/SSE2 support.
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<li> IN PROGRESS: Christophe and Bryce are working on plugin support, so that
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you can compile in support for many more options and enable them at runtime.
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For example, you could compile in support for 4 different gui libraries
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(X11, SDL, RFB, wxWindows) and select between them in your bochsrc.
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</ul>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>The Release
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Process </b></font><BR>
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Before the 2.0 release is finalized, a few things need to happen. First, the
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developers will declare a feature freeze, during which only bug fixes will be
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added to the CVS. This has not begun quite yet because there are a few
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important features (e.g. plugins, SSE) that aren't quite ready to be merged into
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the main trunk. <p>
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When the feature freeze begins, we can focus on testing Bochs in all sorts of
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configurations, fixing bugs, updating documentation, and cleaning things up.
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This will last until we have some confidence that the most critical bugs have
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been fixed or worked around, and that Bochs will compile and work on all
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supported platforms. The documentation should cover all the new features and
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options. Bryce hopes that the feature freeze will last about 2 weeks, but
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really it will last until the developers think the code has been adequately
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debugged and tested.<p>
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During this time, the Source Forge bug/feature/patch trackers are very important
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and very useful. Any bug that we intend to fix before the 2.0 release should be
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marked with Group="to be fixed in v2.0". At the time of release, there will be
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no more open bugs, features, or patches marked for v2.0. All items that are
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marked for v2.0 will be either fixed (and closed), or postponed by changing
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their Group marking to something else like "long range goal". Using
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the bug database helps to ensure that nothing important gets forgotten.
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When you're looking at the Source Forge database, you can click on the Group
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box and select just the items that are selected for v2.0.
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<p>
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Click to see <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Report+a+Bug&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkgroup_ideq12580ampatideq112580">Bug Reports</a>. <br>
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Click to see <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Request+a+Feature&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkatideq362580ampgroup_ideq12580ampfunceqbrowse">Feature Requests</a>. <br>
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Click to see <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Patches&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkatideq312580ampgroup_ideq12580ampfunceqbrowse">Patches</a>. <br>
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