Bochs 2.5 released

[Robert]

This emulates the IBM PC

 

Get it here --> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/

 

Changes in 2.5 (November 27, 2011):

 

Bochs repository moved to the SVN version control !

 

Brief summary :

 

! Fully configurable CPU to emulate with a single .bochsrc option !

- 10% (ST) to 50% (SMP) CPU emulation speedup !

- Implemented support for new x86 ISA extensions, Bochs is aligned with latest published Intel Architecture Manual (rev 040, AVX rev 011):

- - XSAVEOPT, AVX/AVX2/FMA/F16C, BMI1/BMI2, SMEP, INVPCID, TSC-Deadline

- - VMX: VMX Preemption Timer, Pause Loop Exiting and VM Functions

- Implemented support for AMD SSE4A/XOP/FMA4/TBM instruction sets

- Networking: introduced new networking module 'slirp'

- Harddrive: fixed buffer overflow causing Bochs crash in LBA48 mode

- VGA: Added PCI ROM support to cirrus and pcivga and moved ROM loading for the ISA case to the vga code (SeaBIOS now usable by Bochs)

- Sound: ported ES1370 soundcard emulation from Qemu

- Continuing configure rework, check for more removed configure and .bochsrc options and their replacements !

- LGPL'd VGABIOS updated to version 0.7a

The fully detailed log can be seen HERE.