Bochs 2.2.6 released

[Robert]

Changes in 2.2.6 (January 29, 2006):

 

- several APIC and I/O APIC fixes make SMP Bochs booting Windows NT4.0 in

  SMP configuration (Volker, Stanislav)

- critical APIC timer bug fixed (Volker Ruppert)

- several fixes in the hard drive, keyboard, timer, usb and vga code (Volker)

- fixes in Bochs debugger (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- obsolete SMP BIOS images removed (MP tables created dynamicaly)

- new userbutton shortcut "bksl" (backslash)

- enabled #PCE bit in CR4 register, previosly setting of this bit

  generated #GP(0) fault (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- enabled LAHF/SAHF instructions in x86-64 mode (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- determine number of processors in SMP configuration through.bochsrc file

  - new.bochsrc option to choose number of processors to emulate

  - new configure option --enable-smp to configure Bochs for SMP support,

    the old --enable-processors=N option is deprecated

- fixed bug in PMULUDQ SSE2 instruction (Kevin Lawton)

- enable VME (virtual 8086 mode extensions) by default if cpu-level >= 5

- enable Bochs disassembler by default for all configurations (Stanislav)

- win32 installer script improvements (Volker)

- ips parameter moved to new cpu option

- show IPS value in status bar if BX_SHOW_IPS is enabled (Volker, Stanislav)

- updated Bochs instrumentation examples (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- user and development documentation improved

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