From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67B4A0547; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:17:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD6A22A292; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:17:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from wout1-smtp.messagingengine.com (wout1-smtp.messagingengine.com [64.147.123.24]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7207A22A251 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:17:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D5E9752; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:17:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:17:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=fm3; bh=/ESRsaGpQ5Mq4 IArzXHp14DkyzRj84HJU3RKwPU7Z3g=; b=y3Gds25bfq1UJ/q3ayzG+ek3IS0kG TAjz4jxX3nwUUIQclXexnpHNWIm73slBZoCdO8IvnJ0IPBNznRTMx83NrEy8AmEm JaLJQyYC2NM55kfsl4djbHkvLu9Mj90McDxPgbEL5yB4fJtdZAXeId4Q88EOBC++ TBcUyRcHJkGPHejsNahj/oLxLe8EkzpAJPDM0k6pnKYXgcoO42GbfhkHMHYFu6Ta q41I6tzeAvQa64xy+nMGqZxkGaM1kOZ0FnfbCG9E5/UBZA11A9VBlb3lA+3ZHY9i 6Sb/lSmKkuX5F6YzjeIQvibY9bmvvqG6pjmFAyGTzMMO7U/3V2tLdqgxw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:date:from :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to :x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm2; bh=/ESRsaGpQ5Mq4IArzXHp14DkyzRj84HJU3RKwPU7Z3g=; b=owJsTyy/ 5MEXl+Mjmykx/D3szOdtSzU2T9V4+8O+ArAsF+1WHUZQo8hgojrcTK5i+HOJDSmm UVoKcsnugaNPUVdDztuiTdfCNz8Tt7m/5WFPODF77kv1e2DDJb9IQZahgEdUh9BX IpnkPiBOxVPQaSPNoer2qpVb65wJOjKIEbe/YWdb+bJ3XWtfEGn4tloBDvW69HlN 30wo49zy8svjWofc1OXTuAMClLq/kA0kiosVmJro1EirbaoClPeBKiK4SI5+MpSM EMhDxKuJJ6HyGSftiGlO1XxUP7f+D+xoPG5zzwl6eArTZ4gDaAOma8CPUPtahc6A XP3Y2B4L79pAfQ== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduledriedugdeifecutefuodetggdotefrodftvf curfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecu uegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhephffvufffkffojghfggfgsedtkeertd ertddtnecuhfhrohhmpefvhhhomhgrshcuofhonhhjrghlohhnuceothhhohhmrghssehm ohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvtheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepvdehgfeivdejgedtveehfe fhteelfefgieevgfffveefjeegtdfguedthedtgeevnecukfhppeejjedrudefgedrvddt fedrudekgeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhroh hmpehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvght X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.monjalon.net (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EFC59240057; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:17:53 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, Dmitry Kozlyuk Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:17:39 +0100 Message-Id: <20210212141739.1013748-1-thomas@monjalon.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.0 In-Reply-To: <20210212110431.940131-1-thomas@monjalon.net> References: <20210212110431.940131-1-thomas@monjalon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: add pmdinfogen rewrite to release notes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" From: Dmitry Kozlyuk 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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst index 64e220f2ac..99a559479b 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst @@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ DPDK Release 21.02 make doc-guides-html xdg-open build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.html +.. note:: + + A dependency has been added for building DPDK on Linux or FreeBSD: + the Python module pyelftools (version 0.22 or greater), + often packaged as python3-pyelftools, is required. + New Features ------------ @@ -180,6 +186,13 @@ 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 DLL 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