Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] doc/linux_gsg: require pyelftools for pmdinfogen

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:02:32AM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> The package is available on all major distributions.
> FreeBSD has no system requirements section in its GSG,
> Windows currently neither uses pmdinfogen not is supported by it.
> 
Why doesn't windows use pmdinfogen?  That tool doesn't relate to DSO function
versioning, it just generates additional symbols for binaries so that we can see
what pmd support is in a given ELF file

Neil

> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> index a124656bc..ef2037ca7 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> @@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
>      * If the packaged version is below the minimum version, the latest versions
>        can be installed from Python's "pip" repository: ``pip3 install meson ninja``
>  
> +*   ``pyelftools`` (version 0.22+)
> +
> +    * For RHEL/Fedora systems it can be installed using ``dnf install python-pyelftools``
> +
> +    * For Ubuntu/Debian it can be installed using ``apt install python3-pyelftools``
> +
>  *   Library for handling NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access).
>  
>      * ``numactl-devel`` in RHEL/Fedora;
> -- 
> 2.25.4
> 
>