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20070616	Implementing the MIPS32/64 revision 2 "ror" instruction.
20070617	Adding a struct for each physpage which keeps track of which
		ranges within that page (base offset, length) that are
		continuously translatable. When running with native code
		generation enabled (-b), a range is added after each read-
		ahead loop.
		Experimenting with using the physical program counter sample
		data (implemented 20070608) together with the "translatable
		range" information, to figure out which physical address ranges
		would be worth translating to native code (if the number of
		samples falling within a range is above a certain threshold).
20070618	Adding automagic building of .index comment files for
		src/file/, src/promemul/, src src/useremul/ as well.
		Adding a "has been translated" bit to the ranges, so that only
		not-yet-translated ranges will be sampled.
20070619	Moving src/cpu.c and src/memory_rw.c into src/cpus/,
		src/device.c into src/devices/, and src/machine.c into
		src/machines/.
		Creating a skeleton cc/ld native backend module; beginning on
		the function which will detect cc command line, etc.
20070620	Continuing on the native code generation infrastructure.
20070621	Moving src/x11.c and src/console.c into a new src/console/
		subdir (for everything that is console or framebuffer related).
		Moving src/symbol*.c into a new src/symbol/, which should
		contain anything that is symbol handling related.
20070624	Making the program counter sampling threshold a "settings
		variable" (sampling_threshold), i.e. it can now be changed
		during runtime.
		Switching the RELEASE notes format from plain text to HTML.
		If the TMPDIR environment variable is set, it is used instead
		of "/tmp" for temporary files.
		Continuing on the cc/ld backend: simple .c code is generated,
		the compiler and linker are called, etc.
		Adding detection of host architecture to the configure script
		(again), and adding icache invalidation support (only
		implemented for Alpha hosts so far).
20070625	Simplifying the program counter sampling mechanism.
20070626	Removing the cc/ld native code generation stuff, program
		counter sampling, etc; it would not have worked well in the
		general case.
20070627	Removing everything related to native code generation.
20070629	Removing the (practically unusable) support for multiple
		emulations. (The single emulation allowed now still supports
		multiple simultaneous machines, as before.)
		Beginning on PCCTWO and M88K interrupts.
20070723	Adding a dummy skeleton for emulation of M32R processors.
20070901	Fixing a warning found by "gcc version 4.3.0 20070817
		(experimental)" on amd64.
20070905	Removing some more traces of the old "multiple emulations"
		code.
		Also looking in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib for
		X11 libs, when running configure.
20070909	Minor updates to the guest OS install instructions, in
		preparation for the NetBSD 4.0 release.
20070918	More testing of NetBSD 4.0 RC1.

1 <html><head><title>Gavare's eXperimental Emulator:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Release notes</title>
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7 <b>GXemul:</b></font>&nbsp;&nbsp;
8 <font color="#000000" size="6"><b>Release notes</b>
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13
14 <h2>Release notes for GXemul 0.4.6.1</h2>
15
16 <p><i>Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Anders Gavare</i>
17
18
19 <p><br>GXemul is a framework for full-system computer architecture emulation.
20 Several processor architectures and machine types have been implemented.
21 It is working well enough to allow <a href="doc/guestoses.html">unmodified
22 "guest" operating systems to run inside the emulator</a>,
23 as if they were running on real hardware.
24
25 <p>The emulator emulates (networks of) real machines. The machines may
26 consist of ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and SuperH processors, and various
27 surrounding hardware components such as framebuffers, busses, interrupt
28 controllers, ethernet controllers, disk controllers, and serial port
29 controllers.
30
31 <p>The <a href="doc/index.html">documentation</a> lists the machines and
32 guest operating systems that
33 can be regarded as "working" in GXemul. The best working guest operating
34 systems are <a href="doc/guestoses.html#netbsdpmaxinstall">NetBSD/pmax</a>
35 and <a href="doc/guestoses.html#netbsdcatsinstall">NetBSD/cats</a>.
36
37
38 <p><br>The changes between release 0.4.6 and 0.4.6.1 include:
39
40 <ul>
41
42 <li>NetBSD 4.0 has been released. The installation instructions
43 in GXemul's documentation have been updated to reflect this.
44
45 <p><ul>
46 <li>In most cases this simply means that NetBSD 4.0 is now
47 supported instead of NetBSD 3.1.
48 </ul>
49
50 <p>Some specifics worth mentioning are:
51
52 <p><ul>
53 <li>For NetBSD/pmax, the change from 3.1 to 4.0 means that
54 X Windows is now working again out-of-the-box. (Simply
55 run <tt>startx</tt> as root to start X.)
56 <li>For NetBSD/arc, the supported version has jumped from
57 1.6.2 to 4.0.
58 <li>NetBSD/prep is unfortunately still at 2.0.
59 </ul>
60
61 </ul>
62
63 <p>Please read the <a href="HISTORY">HISTORY</a> file for more details.
64
65
66 <p><br>Files included in this release are:<pre>
67 <a href="HISTORY">HISTORY</a> Detailed revision history / changelog.
68 <a href="LICENSE">LICENSE</a> Copyright message / license.
69 <a href="README">README</a> Quick start instructions, for the impatient.
70 RELEASE.html This file.
71 <a href="TODO">TODO</a> TODO notes.
72 configure, Makefile.skel sh and make scripts for building GXemul.
73 <a href="demos/">demos/</a> Tutorial-like demos of testmachine functionality.
74 <a href="doc/">doc/</a> Documentation.
75 <a href="experiments/">experiments/</a> Experimental code. (Usually not needed.)
76 <a href="man/">man/</a> Man page.
77 <a href="src/">src/</a> Source code.
78 </pre>
79
80 <p>To build the emulator, run the <tt>configure</tt> script, and then run
81 <tt>make</tt>. This should work on most Unix-like systems, with few or no
82 modifications to the source code.
83
84 <p>Regarding files in the <tt>src/include/</tt> directory: only some of
85 these are written by me, the rest are from other sources (such as NetBSD).
86 The license text says that "All advertising materials mentioning features
87 or use of this software" must display acknowledgements. Even though I do
88 <i>not</i> feel that I mention features or use of the header files (the
89 "software") in any advertising materials, I am still very grateful for the
90 fact that these people have made their files available for re-use, as Free
91 software, so regardless of legal requirements, I guess thanking them like
92 this is in order:<pre>
93 This product includes software developed by the University of
94 California, Berkeley and its contributors.
95
96 This product includes software developed for the
97 NetBSD Project. See <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">http://www.netbsd.org/</a> for
98 information about NetBSD.
99
100 This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone for
101 the NetBSD Project.
102
103 This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
104 by Matthias Drochner.
105
106 This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
107 Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
108
109 This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou.
110 [for the NetBSD Project.]
111
112 This product includes software developed by Adam Glass.
113
114 This product includes software developed by the PocketBSD project
115 and its contributors.
116
117 This product includes software developed by Peter Galbavy.
118
119 Carnegie Mellon University (multiple header files,
120 no specific advertisement text required)
121
122 This product includes software developed by Charles M. Hannum.
123
124 This product includes software developed under <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a> by Per Fogelström.
125
126 This product includes software developed by Per Fogelström.
127
128 This product includes software developed at Ludd, University of
129 Luleå, Sweden and its contributors.
130
131 This product includes software developed by Hellmuth Michaelis
132 and Joerg Wunsch
133
134 The font(s) in devices/fonts are Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994
135 by Hellmuth Michaelis and Joerg Wunsch. ("This product includes software
136 developed by Hellmuth Michaelis and Joerg Wunsch", well, the font
137 is maybe not software, but still...)
138
139 impactsr-bsd.h is Copyright (C) 2004 by Stanislaw Skowronek.
140
141 This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by
142 Wasabi Systems, Inc. [by Simon Burge]
143
144 arcbios_other.h is Copyright (c) 1996 M. Warner Losh.
145
146 This product includes software developed by Marc Horowitz.
147
148 This product includes software developed by Brini.
149
150 This product includes software developed by Mark Brinicombe
151 for the NetBSD Project.
152
153 This product includes software developed by TooLs GmbH.
154
155 This product includes software developed by Manuel Bouyer.
156
157 This product includes software developed by the Alice Group.
158
159 This product includes software developed by Ichiro FUKUHARA.
160
161 This product includes software developed by Marcus Comstedt.
162
163 This product includes software developed by Bill Paul.
164
165 This product includes software developed by Nivas Madhur.
166 </pre>
167
168 <p>Also, <tt>src/include/alpha_rpb.h</tt> requires the following:<pre>
169 Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 Carnegie-Mellon University.
170 All rights reserved.
171
172 Author: Keith Bostic, Chris G. Demetriou
173
174 Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
175 its documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright
176 notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the
177 software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions
178 thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation.
179 </pre>
180
181 <p>See individual files for license details, if you plan to redistribute
182 GXemul or reuse code.
183
184 <p>GXemul's homepage is
185 <a href="http://gavare.se/gxemul/">http://gavare.se/gxemul/</a>.
186
187 <p>If you have found GXemul useful in some way, or feel like sending me
188 comments or feedback in general, then mail me at
189 <tt>anders(<i>@At</i>)gavare.se</tt>.
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