--- trunk/RELEASE 2007/10/08 16:18:51 14 +++ trunk/RELEASE 2007/10/08 16:19:01 16 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Release notes for Gavare's eXperimental Emulator (GXemul), 0.3.6 -================================================================ +Release notes for Gavare's eXperimental Emulator (GXemul), 0.3.6.1 +================================================================== Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Anders Gavare. @@ -51,19 +51,19 @@ The most imporant user-visible change between release 0.3.5 and 0.3.6 is: - (X) The experimental ARM emulation mode is now working well enough + x) The experimental ARM emulation mode is now working well enough to install NetBSD/cats and OpenBSD/cats onto harddisk images. -There are two minor issues with the ARM emulation: +There have also been lots of other small changes, too small to mention here. - 1) A bug is triggered at the end of the OpenBSD/cats installation, - so the MAKEDEV script must be run manually before booting for - the first time. +The 0.3.6.1 release fixes some issues related to ARM emulation: - 2) I have not had time to do any performance optimizations yet, so - the ARM emulation mode is not very fast. + x) The emulator can now be compiled inside NetBSD/cats or OpenBSD/cats, + inside the emulator itself. (In 0.3.6, some bugs prevented this.) -There have also been lots of other small changes, too small to mention here. + x) Performance increase: A non-scientific but realistic test, measuring + the real-world time it takes to do a full NetBSD/cats installation, + seems to indicate that 0.3.6.1 can be twice as fast as 0.3.6 was. Files included in this release are: