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Release notes for Gavare's eXperimental Emulator (GXemul), 0.3.6 |
Release notes for Gavare's eXperimental Emulator (GXemul), 0.3.6.1 |
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Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Anders Gavare. |
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Anders Gavare. |
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The most imporant user-visible change between release 0.3.5 and 0.3.6 is: |
The most imporant user-visible change between release 0.3.5 and 0.3.6 is: |
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(X) The experimental ARM emulation mode is now working well enough |
x) The experimental ARM emulation mode is now working well enough |
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to install NetBSD/cats and OpenBSD/cats onto harddisk images. |
to install NetBSD/cats and OpenBSD/cats onto harddisk images. |
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There are two minor issues with the ARM emulation: |
There have also been lots of other small changes, too small to mention here. |
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1) A bug is triggered at the end of the OpenBSD/cats installation, |
The 0.3.6.1 release fixes some issues related to ARM emulation: |
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so the MAKEDEV script must be run manually before booting for |
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the first time. |
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2) I have not had time to do any performance optimizations yet, so |
x) The emulator can now be compiled inside NetBSD/cats or OpenBSD/cats, |
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the ARM emulation mode is not very fast. |
inside the emulator itself. (In 0.3.6, some bugs prevented this.) |
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There have also been lots of other small changes, too small to mention here. |
x) Performance increase: A non-scientific but realistic test, measuring |
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the real-world time it takes to do a full NetBSD/cats installation, |
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seems to indicate that 0.3.6.1 can be twice as fast as 0.3.6 was. |
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Files included in this release are: |
Files included in this release are: |
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