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<h2>Release notes for GXemul 0.4.7.2</h2>
<p><i>Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Anders Gavare</i>
<p><br>GXemul is a framework for full-system computer architecture emulation.
Several processor architectures and machine types have been implemented.
It is working well enough to allow <a href="doc/guestoses.html">unmodified
"guest" operating systems to run inside the emulator</a>,
as if they were running on real hardware.
<p>The emulator emulates (networks of) real machines. The machines may consist
of ARM, MIPS, Motorola 88K, PowerPC, and SuperH processors, and various
surrounding hardware components such as framebuffers, busses, interrupt
controllers, ethernet controllers, disk controllers, and serial port
controllers.
<p>The <a href="doc/index.html">documentation</a> lists the machines and
guest operating systems that
can be regarded as "working" in GXemul. The best working guest operating
systems are <a href="doc/guestoses.html#netbsdpmaxinstall">NetBSD/pmax</a>
and <a href="doc/guestoses.html#netbsdcatsinstall">NetBSD/cats</a>.
<p><br>The changes between release 0.4.6.6 and 0.4.7 are:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88000">Motorola
88K</a> emulation is now complete enough to run a guest
operating system:
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a> 4.4.
<p>A big thank you goes to Miod Vallat, who sent me physical
88100 documentation, via snail mail. This has been invaluable
when implementing the 88K emulation mode.
</ul>
<p><br>The changes between release 0.4.7 and 0.4.7.1 are:
<ul>
<li>Applying a man page hypenation patch from Jonathan Wiltshire.
<li>Minor documentation errors fixed.
<li>Some more missing M88K instructions added.
<li>NetBSD/hpcmips can now be installed and run using serial
console (i.e. without -X), in addition to using the framebuffer.
</ul>
<p><br><b>The changes between release 0.4.7.1 and 0.4.7.2 are:</b>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a> 5.0,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a> 4.5, and
<a href="http://www.helenos.org/">HelenOS</a> 0.4.0 have been released,
and the guest OS page has been updated to reflect this. (Not all
versions and architectures work; the versions listed on the
guest OS page are the latest ones that have been tested.)
<li>A bug has been fixed which prevented configuration files from being used.
</ul>
<p><br>Please read the <a href="HISTORY">HISTORY</a> file for more details.
<p><br>Files included in this release are:<pre>
<a href="HISTORY">HISTORY</a> Detailed revision history / changelog.
<a href="LICENSE">LICENSE</a> Copyright message / license.
<a href="README">README</a> Quick start instructions, for the impatient.
RELEASE.html This file.
<a href="TODO">TODO</a> TODO notes.
configure, Makefile.skel sh and make scripts for building GXemul.
<a href="demos/">demos/</a> Tutorial-like demos of testmachine functionality.
<a href="doc/">doc/</a> Documentation.
<a href="experiments/">experiments/</a> Experimental code. (Usually not needed.)
<a href="man/">man/</a> Man page.
<a href="src/">src/</a> Source code.
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<p>To build the emulator, run the <tt>configure</tt> script, and then run
<tt>make</tt>. This should work on most Unix-like systems, with few or no
modifications to the source code.
<p>Regarding files in the <tt>src/include/</tt> directory: only some of
these are written by me, the rest are from other sources (such as NetBSD).
The license text says that "All advertising materials mentioning features
or use of this software" must display acknowledgements. Even though I do
<i>not</i> feel that I mention features or use of the header files (the
"software") in any advertising materials, I am still very grateful for the
fact that these people have made their files available for re-use, as Free
software, so regardless of legal requirements, I guess thanking them like
this is in order:<pre>
This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.
This product includes software developed for the
NetBSD Project. See <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">http://www.netbsd.org/</a> for
information about NetBSD.
This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone for
the NetBSD Project.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Matthias Drochner.
This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou.
[for the NetBSD Project.]
This product includes software developed by Adam Glass.
This product includes software developed by the PocketBSD project
and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by Peter Galbavy.
Carnegie Mellon University (multiple header files,
no specific advertisement text required)
This product includes software developed by Charles M. Hannum.
This product includes software developed under <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a> by Per Fogelström.
This product includes software developed by Per Fogelström.
This product includes software developed at Ludd, University of
Luleå, Sweden and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by Hellmuth Michaelis
and Joerg Wunsch
The font(s) in devices/fonts are Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994
by Hellmuth Michaelis and Joerg Wunsch. ("This product includes software
developed by Hellmuth Michaelis and Joerg Wunsch", well, the font
is maybe not software, but still...)
impactsr-bsd.h is Copyright (C) 2004 by Stanislaw Skowronek.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by
Wasabi Systems, Inc. [by Simon Burge]
arcbios_other.h is Copyright (c) 1996 M. Warner Losh.
This product includes software developed by Marc Horowitz.
This product includes software developed by Brini.
This product includes software developed by Mark Brinicombe
for the NetBSD Project.
This product includes software developed by TooLs GmbH.
This product includes software developed by Manuel Bouyer.
This product includes software developed by the Alice Group.
This product includes software developed by Ichiro FUKUHARA.
This product includes software developed by Marcus Comstedt.
This product includes software developed by Bill Paul.
This product includes software developed by Nivas Madhur.
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<p>Also, <tt>src/include/alpha_rpb.h</tt> requires the following:<pre>
Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 Carnegie-Mellon University.
All rights reserved.
Author: Keith Bostic, Chris G. Demetriou
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
its documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the
software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions
thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation.
</pre>
<p>See individual files for license details, if you plan to redistribute
GXemul or reuse code.
<p>GXemul's homepage is
<a href="http://gavare.se/gxemul/">http://gavare.se/gxemul/</a>.
<p>If you have found GXemul useful in some way, or feel like sending me
comments or feedback in general, then mail me at
<tt>anders(<i>@At</i>)gavare.se</tt>.
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