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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] doc/linux_gsg: require pyelftools
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 04:24:29PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 08:52:57 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Windows uses COFF instead of ELF. I'm planning to add COFF support to
> pmdinfogen in a separate patch and also put wrapper script there. In this
> series I'd like to focus on just rewriting existing functionality.
> 
Ah, understood, thanks for the clarification

Neil

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