gmane.comp.emulators.bochs.announce

Bochs 2.6.1 released

Volker Ruppert — 2013-04-07T19:03:36

Hi all!

The intermediate (bugfix+) release Bochs 2.6.1 has been released on 
April 7th, 2013. Most of the files
are now available for download, the online documentation and the website 
will be updated soon.

Summary of changes:

- CPU / CPUDB
   - Bochs is fully aligned with rev45 of the of Intel(R) Architecture 
Manual.
     - Implemented Supervisor Mode Access Protection (SMAP) support
     - Implemented VMX APIC Registers Virtualization and VMX Virtual 
Interrupt Delivery
     - Implemented VMCS Shadowing and #VE exception secondary VMEXIT 
controls emulation
     - Implemented RDRAND and RDSEED instructions
   ! CPUDB: Added AMD FX-4100 (Zambezi) configuration to CPUDB
   - Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (critical fixes for SVM and 
AVX2 emulation)

- Bochs Debugger and Instrumentation
   - Use Enhanced GUI Debugger instead of old-style wx debugger with wx gui.
     The old-style wx debugger support was deprecated and removed from 
the source code.

- I/O Devices
   - Implemented 3dfx Voodoo Gr

Bochs 2.6 released

Volker Ruppert — 2012-09-02T19:36:29

Hi all!

Bochs 2.6 has been released on September 2nd, 2012. Most of the files 
are now available for download, the online documentation is up-to-date 
and the website will be updated soon.

Brief summary of changes:

- More than 10% CPU emulation speedup !
- Support for AMD's SVM hardware emulation (including extended XAPIC
   support).
- Implemented support for new x86 ISA extensions.
   Bochs is fully aligned with rev043 of Intel(R) Architecture Manual.
- Improved emulation accuracy (critical fixes for APIC, VMX and AVX/XOP
   emulation).
- Bochs internal debugger: new command to show state of a device from
   the debugger.
- ROM BIOS: improved PCI boot ROM support (for VGA and other devices)
- Networking:
     - Ported Intel(R) 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet adapter emulation from
       Qemu.
     - Added PCI network boot ROM support to all network adapters.
     - Added TFTP support to the 'slirp' networking module.
- Harddrive: added support for VirtualPC disk images, fixed sparse disk
   images.
- Sound: