RVVM v0.5 Release

[LekKit]

This release includes

• Prebuilt rvvm-cli v0.5 for Linux x86_64/ARM64, Windows x86_64, MacOS x86_64
• More builds will be added later or should build from source
• Prebuilt OpenSBI 1.2 fw_jump.bin for use in the guest
• Prebuilt U-Boot 2023.4 u-boot.bin kernel, fw_payload.bin firmware; With NVMe & EFIFB support patches
• See LekKit/patches-misc for firmware/kernel configs and more

Major features

• RVJIT Von Neumann instruction cache (ifence stalls elimination)
• RVJIT Linker (Direct linkage of translated functions, improves perf)
• NVMe storage devices, TRIM on raw sparse images
• OpenCores I2C, I2C-HID input devices, cursor integration
• Realtek RTL8169 NIC, WIP userspace networking (Build with USE_NET=1)
• ELF Firmware/Kernel loading

RVVM API Improvements:

• Automatic IRQ/Bus/MMIO assignment
• Machine options (CPU limits, etc)
• Framebuffer, HID, Reboot/poweroff APIs

Fixes, compatibility

• MMIO/PCIe Atomics
• ACLINT MSWI, working SMP in U-Boot
• PLIC fixes concerning FreeBSD/OpenBSD guests stability
• Support HaikuOS guests
• WFI fixes for full riscv-tests conformance
• Support UART VT on Windows 10
• Support HaikuOS, SerenityOS hosts
• Support Emscripten
• Support Windows CE
• Better thread/timer implementations on Windows
• Improve idle CPU usage and sleep precision
• Fix vulnerabilities & lockups exposed by LLVM Fuzzer
• Fix issues uncovered by ASAN/UBSAN/TSAN
• Fix MacOS IO issues (Mac OS X: Guest hangs when allocating >=2G of RAM #81)
• Fix rare stuttering due to hashmap scaling logic
• Fix rare threadpool lockups
• Myriad of tiny fixes...

New Contributors

• @mjunix made their first contribution in Fix argument to ReadConsoleW #62
• @X547 made their first contribution in [WIP] i2c-hid: add #64
• @kvxmmu made their first contribution in Add one more error code for the rvvm_attach_mmio #72
• @iyzsong made their first contribution in Makefile: Fix build on OpenBSD #88

Full Changelog: v0.4...v0.5

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