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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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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> The 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> Added support for the AMD x86-64 instruction set used in their Hammer processor (Peter Tattam)
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<li> Added support for MMX instructions (Stanislav Shwartzman)
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<li> Added support for SSE and SSE2 instructions (Stanislav Shwartzman)
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<li> Remote GDB stub support (Johan Rydberg, Stu Grossman)
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<li> Added plugin support for Linux, Solaris, MacOS X, and Cygwin. Plugins
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allow you to compile Bochs with support for many options and load the
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pieces that you want at runtime.
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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 declare a feature freeze, during which only bug fixes will be
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added to the CVS. The feature freeze began around the first of November,
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and will continue until the release is ready. During the feature freeze, we
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focus on testing Bochs in all sorts of configurations, fixing bugs, updating
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documentation, and generally cleaning things up. The freeze will last until we
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have some confidence that the most critical bugs have been fixed or worked
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around, and that Bochs will compile and work on all supported platforms. <p>
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During this time, the Source Forge bug/feature/patch trackers are very
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important and very useful. Any bug that we intend to fix before the 2.0
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release should be marked with Group="to be fixed in v2.0". At the time of
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release, there will be no more open bugs, features, or patches marked for v2.0.
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All items that are marked for v2.0 will be either fixed (and closed), or
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postponed by changing their Group marking to something else like "long range
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goal". Using the bug database helps to ensure that nothing important gets
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forgotten. When you're looking at the Source Forge database, you can click on
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the Group box and select just the items that are selected for v2.0. <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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