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Bump PKGREVISION.
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User-visible change between release 0.3.6.2 and 0.3.7 include:
o) The experimental PowerPC emulation mode is now working well enough
to allow NetBSD/prep 2.1 to be installed and run inside the emulator.
It is not 100% stable, and it is not optimized for performance yet,
but hopefully enough for simple experiments.
o) I finally took the time to implement a DEC 21143 NIC; this brings
network connectivity to NetBSD/cats. (The userland "NAT"-like
networking layer is still a bit buggy, and does not work with
everything. However, NetBSD/cats can now be installed via ftp.)
o) CD-ROM images can now in some cases be detected as ATAPI CD-ROMs
instead of IDE harddisks. It works for at least NetBSD, OpenBSD,
and Linux on CATS, and NetBSD on hpcmips.
Internal (code related) changes include:
o) Cleanup of the PCI and ISA bus frameworks; in practice this means
that more code can be shared between different emulated machine
models than before, and that adding new machine types will become
easier.
o) Dyntrans updates; 32-bit PowerPC mostly, but also many performance
related updates for ARM.
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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
to install NetBSD/cats and OpenBSD/cats onto harddisk images.
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Changes:
x) When emulating a network of multiple machines, the emulated
machines can now be placed on different hosts.
x) NetBSD/evbmips can now be installed and run from a disk image.
(There is no INSTALL kernel for NetBSD/evbmips, so you need to
install using another OS, for example emulated NetBSD/pmax.)
x) NetBSD/sgimips can now be installed. Not onto a SCSI disk,
but the files can be exported via nfs from another emulated
machine. The sgimips machine can then netboot. (Read the
documentation for details.)
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The most important/visible changes from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2 are:
x) NetBSD/cobalt can run from a harddisk image. (Installation
must be done using another OS though, for example NetBSD/pmax.)
x) Some minor fixes to make the binary translation system a bit
more stable.
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The two most visible changes from version 0.3 to 0.3.1 are:
x) Name change (from mips64emul to GXemul).
x) NetBSD/hpcmips can now be installed and run from a harddisk
image on an emulated NEC MobilePro 770, 780, 800, or 880.
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GXemul is a machine emulator. The initial goal was to write a simple
64-bit MIPS emulator for running multiprocessor experiments with a
microkernel, but the emulator can be used for many other things. While
some simulators only simulate a CPU, GXemul also simulates other
hardware components, making it possible to use the emulator to run
unmodified operating systems, such as NetBSD, OpenBSD, or Linux.
[previously known as mips64emul, it was renamed because now
supports more cpu archs than MIPS, as sparc, ppc...]
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