The main changes are:
* virtio-serial
* booting speed imrovement
* better PCI bridge support
The complete changelog is:
> virtio-serial: Fix compile error
> scsi: Remove debug functions from scsi-loader.fs
> scsi: Remove unused read-6 command
> obp-tftp: Remove the ciregs-buffer
> libnet: Simplify the net-load arguments passing
> libnet: Simplify the Forth-to-C wrapper of ping()
> Do not link libnet to net-snk anymore, and remove net-snk from board-qemu
> Add a Forth-to-C wrapper for the ping command, too
> Link libnet code to Paflof and add a wrapper for netboot()
> Remember execution tokens of "write" and "read" for socket operations
> Add virtio-serial device support
> Generalize output banner write routine
> Improve indentation in OF.fs
> scsi: implement READ (16) command
> rtas: Improve rtas-do-config-@ and rtas-do-config-! a little bit
> libnet: Make netapps.h includable from .code files
> libnet: Remove unused prototypes from netapps.h
> libnet: Fix the printout of the ping command
> libnet: Make sure to close sockets when we're done
> scsi: implement read-capacity-16
> pci: Fix secondary and subordinate PCI bus enumeration with board-qemu
> pci-phb: Fix stack underflow in phb-pci-walk-bridge
> paflof: Add a read() function to read keyboard input
> paflof: Add socket(), send() and recv() functions to paflof
> paflof: Provide get_timer() and set_timer() helper functions
> paflof: Add a write_mm_log helper function
> paflof: Copy sbrk code from net-snk
> paflof: Use CFLAGS from make.rules instead of completely redefining them
> Do not include the FCode evaluator by default anymore
> Source code beautification of board-qemu/slof/pci-interrupts.fs
> Allow PCI devices in PCI bridge slots greater than 4
> Fix bad interrupt pin numbering in interrupt-map property of PCI bridges
> Improve SLOF_alloc_mem_aligned()
> instance: Fix set-my-args for empty arguments
> Fix remaining compiler warnings in sloffs.c
> Remove misleading padding fields from ROM header definition
> Improve indentation in calculatecrc.h
> Do not include calculatecrc.h from assembler files
> Remove unused defines in calculatecrc.h
> libnet: Re-initialize global variables at the beginning of tftp()
> Remove dependency on cpu/@0 for booting
> usb: Set XHCI slot speed according to port status
> usb: Build correct route string for USB3 devices behind a hub
> usb: Initialize USB3 devices on a hub and keep track of hub topology
> usb: Increase amount of maximum slot IDs and add a sanity check
> usb: Move XHCI port state arrays from header to .c file
> tools: add copy functionality
> tools: added support to sloffs to read from /dev/slof_flash
> tools: added file append functionality
> tools: use crc checking code from romfs/tools
> tools: added initial version of sloffs
> romfs: factored out crc code, to make it usable from other locations
> tools: remove unused parts from the Makefile
> usb-hid: Fix non-working comma key
> fat-files: Fix access to FAT32 dir/files when cluster > 16-bits
> virtio-net: fix ring handling in receive
> net: Remove remainders of the MTFTP code
> net: Move also files from clients/net-snk/app/netapps/ to lib/libnet/
> net: Move files from clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ to lib/libnet/
> net-snk: Get rid of netlib and netapps prefixes in include statements
> usb-xhci: assign field4 before conditional
> Improve F12 key handling in boot menu
> Fix stack underflow that occurs with duplicated ESC in input
> rtas-nvram: optimize erase
> ipv6: Replace magic number 1500 with ETH_MTU_SIZE (i.e. 1518)
> ipv6: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ip6addr_add()
> ipv6: Fix memory leak in set_ipv6_address() / ip6_create_ll_address()
> ipv6: Clear memory after malloc if necessary
> ipv6: Fix possible NULL-pointer dereference in send_ipv6()
> ping: use gateway address for routing
> ping: add netmask in the ping argument
> xhci: fix missing keys from keyboard
> xhci: add memory barrier after filling the trb
> loaders: Remove netflash command
> boot: Remove legacy Forth words for network loading
> base: Move cnt-bits and bcd-to-bin to board-js2x folder
> base: Move huge-tftp-load variable to obp-tftp package
> base: Remove unused IP address conversion functions
> virtio: White space cleanup in virtio-9p.c
> virtio: Add modern version 1.0 support to 9p driver
> virtio: Set a proper name for virtio-9p device tree nodes
> pci: Fix mistype in "unkown-bridge"
> ipv6: Indent code with tabs, not with spaces
> ipv6: send_ipv6() has to return after doing NDP
> ipv6: Do not use unitialized MAC address array
> ipv6: Add support for sending packets through a router
> Remove unused sms code.
> virtio-net: initialize to populate mac address
> libbootmsg: Do not use '\b' characters when printing checkpoints
> dev-null: The "read" function has to return 0 if nothing has been read
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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