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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add pmdinfogen rewrite to release notes
@ 2021-02-12 11:04 Thomas Monjalon
  2021-02-12 14:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Thomas Monjalon
  2021-02-12 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Thomas Monjalon
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Monjalon @ 2021-02-12 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: john.mcnamara, Dmitry Kozlyuk

From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

The build tool pmdinfogen was rewritten in DPDK 21.02,
adding Windows support.
There is a new build-time dependency: pyelftools.

Fixes: f0f93a7adfee ("buildtools: use Python pmdinfogen")
Fixes: 6b19edcb663c ("build: enable pmdinfogen for Windows")

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst
index 64e220f2ac..786c70455d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst
@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ New Features
   tests and output graphed results to PDF files.
   See the :doc:`../tools/cryptoperf` guide for more details.
 
+* **Added Windows support to pmdinfogen.**
+
+  PMD information strings were added for Windows as well as for other OS.
+  Extracting them from Windows DLLs is not yet supported.
+  The build-time tool pmdinfogen was rewritten in Python,
+  thus libelf dependency was replaced with pyelftools as new build dependency.
+
 * **Added support for build-time checking of header includes.**
 
   A new build option ``check_includes`` has been added, which, when enabled,
-- 
2.30.0


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