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 BA87DA0547; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:30:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3858A22A28F; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:30:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B82122A28E for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:30:01 +0100 (CET) IronPort-SDR: MtFeJP0KdS5nuJwMzGiJvOseb9BKh1PJXzSWVejJShPKCTgDcBj3gO8IMtixNX93LaDfSfcQn7 HKF0N3BSnA3w== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9892"; a="178915750" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.81,173,1610438400"; d="scan'208";a="178915750" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 12 Feb 2021 06:30:01 -0800 IronPort-SDR: vZ1c0RSMbDwXa8QkxGtgEwIL5CfoprkEvIXKmDfAA8IeykPQyOUQKCKN3PDKLyN3/HgLbanb14 zSGIm2miAYAQ== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.81,173,1610438400"; d="scan'208";a="398004329" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.252.22.2]) by orsmga008-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 12 Feb 2021 06:29:59 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:29:56 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com, Dmitry Kozlyuk Message-ID: <20210212142956.GC970@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20210212110431.940131-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20210212141739.1013748-1-thomas@monjalon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210212141739.1013748-1-thomas@monjalon.net> Subject: Re: [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" On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 03:17:39PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 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 Acked-by: Bruce Richardson One additional suggestion below if you want to take it too. > --- > 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. This module can also be installed using pip for python3 e.g. "pip3 install pyelftools". > + > > 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 >