[ES40-announcements] Fwd: New developer mailing list

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Hello everyone,

I'd like to call your attention to a new mailing-list,
es4...@li....

On this list, all aspects related to the development of the emulator
can be discussed.

If you're helping to develop ES40, or would simply like to stay
up-to-date with the latest patches and code changes, please join this
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Here's the first message intended for this new list, to give you a bit
of a foretaste:

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A new CVS snapshot is available for download; 20080203_1045, and the
documentation at http://es40.sourceforge.net has been updated.

Changes from release 0.17 are:

 - Completed LPT support so it works with FreeBSD as a guest OS.
  (02-feb-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - Avoid unnecessary shift-operations to calculate constant values.
  (01-feb-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Improved speed by remembering the number of instructions left in current
  memory page, so that the translation-buffer doens't need to be consulted
  on every instruction fetch when the Icache is disabled. (30-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Remember separate last found translation-buffer entries for read and write
  operations. This should help with memory copy operations. (29-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Avoid interrupts from the new IDE device that originated while interrupts
  were disabled. (29-jan-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - Improved floating-point exception handling. (28-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - Lifted hardcoded file-size limit of 10,000 bytes for config file.
  (26-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Bugfix in the VAX floating point STF and the IEEE floating point STS
  instructions. (26-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Don't repeat interrupts from the new IDE controller too soon.
  (26-jan-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - Do unaligned trap only when a page boundary is crossed. Something is
  causing alignment traps in the SRM console, with the DAT bit set to false,
  and no OS handler in place. Also, when OpenVMS boots there are alignment
  traps that shouldn't happen. None of these cross page boundaries, so we're
  safe for now. (26-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Trap on unaligned memory access. The previous implementation where
  unaligned accesses were silently allowed could go wrong when page
  boundaries are crossed. (25-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Allow specifying autocreate_size on a disk image to have it created if it
  doesn't exist. (25-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Added an option to disable the processor Icache. The emulator runs faster
  when this is disabled, but that might lead to problems with some OS'es.
  (25-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Added do_pci_write and do_pci_read functions to the PCI base device.
  (24-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven, David Hittner)
 - Fixed overflow-detection. (24-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Added missing integer /V instructions (22-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven,
  Bob Supnik)
 - win32 GUI made compatible with older windows SDK. (22-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - New floating-point code (21-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven, Bob Supnik)
 - Fixed misinterpretation of the INT bit in integer overflow traps. (Camiel
  Vanderhoeven, 21-jan-2008)
 - Limited the maximum number of sectors, as the OpenVMS IDE driver doesn't
  like 255 sectors. (Camiel Vanderhoeven, 21-jan-2008)
 - Added X11 GUI. (20-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Added win32 GUI. (19-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Run CPU in a separate thread if CPU_THREADS is defined. NOTA BENE: This is
  very experimental, and has several problems. (19-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - Replaced sext_64 inlines for performance reasons (18-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven, David Hittner)
 - Process device interrupts after a 100-cpu-cycle delay. (18-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Added ADDL/V instruction (16-jan-2008, David Hittner, Bob Supnik)
 - Fixed some timeouts on new IDE controller. (16-jan-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - When a keyboard self-test command is received, and the queue is not empty,
  the queue is cleared so the 0x55 that's sent back will be the first thing
  in line. Makes the keyboard initialize a little better with SRM.
  (15-jan-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - Bugfix regarding double deletion of disk device objects. (13-jan-2008,
  Brian Wheeler)
 - New IDE-controller working on big-endian host architectures. (13-jan-2008,
  Fang Zhe)
 - Support additional CD-ROM commands. (13-jan-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - Smart algorithm for determining optimal cylinder/head/sector disk layout.
  (13-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - End debugger run on Ctrl-C. (12-jan-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - SCSI Engine added to Disk class. SCSIBus class and SCSIDevice base class
  added. (12-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - bugfix to ATAPI code in new IDE controller. SRM can now boot from IDE
  CD-ROMs. (09-jan-2008, Brian wheeler)
 - ATAPI improvements to new IDE controller. (09-jan-2008, Brian wheeler)
 - Put filename without path in disk model number. (09-jan-2008, Brian
  Wheeler)
 - Save disk state to state file. (09-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Use Brian Wheeler's CNewIde class instead of the CAliM1543C_ide class if
  HAVE_NEW_IDE is defined. This change will be undone when the new ide
  controller will replace the old standard one. (08-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - "Old" IDE-controller working on big-endian host architectures.
  (08-jan-2008, Fang Zhe)
 - S3 Trio VGA-card working on big-endian host architectures. (08-jan-2008,
  Fang Zhe)
 - Removed last references to IDE disk read SRM replacement. (08-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Added NewIde class. Due to replace the current IDE controller
  implementation. (08-jan-2008, Brian Wheeler)
 - PCI scatter/gather DMA memory mapping support added. (07-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - Default blocksize set to 2048 bytes for CD-ROM devices. (06-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Allow changing block-size on disk devices. (06-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - Fixed typo in network-code (05-jan-2008, Fausto Saporito)
 - Do 64-bit file I/O properly for FreeBSD and OS X. (05-jan-2008, Fang Zhe)
 - Added CDiskDevice class to allow using raw devices. (05-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - Made MAC-address of network-card configurable (04-jan-2008, David Hittner)
 - Make telnet work on Apple OS X. (04-jan-2008, Fang Zhe)
 - Improved compatibility with SDL on Apple OS X (including keyboard).
  (04-jan-2008, Fang Zhe)
 - Added swap_xx macro's for use in places where bytes need to be swapped
  regardless of endianess. (04-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Support for larger disk images by using 64-bit file I/O. (04-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Cirrus VGA-card working on big-endian host architectures. (03-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - PCI base device working on big-endian host architectures. (03-jan-2008,
  Camiel Vanderhoeven)
 - Compatibility with SDL on Apple OS X. (03-jan-2008, Fang Zhe)
 - Compileable on Apple OS X and FreeBSD. (03-jan-2008, Fang Zhe)
 - CPU working on big-endian host architectures. (02-jan-2008, Camiel
  Vanderhoeven)
 - Recognize endianess on more architectures. (02-jan-2008, Fang Zhe)

Camiel.