From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com (mail-wm0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696735AB4 for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 10:55:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id i142so3459161wmf.0 for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 01:55:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=l/x+Rs6sjmkO60LPzBAGEajiLOjnleaOmoSFAu26L0Y=; b=QQu+LCAGo18O40rJIM3iGKB8Q1s5OQ9CP23HSr8kzlL3DQRA6OrdW+VRSMM9G9D5Px LkrITbpEG+uj5Xzjn96DZ9kQhPIyw9yl2+xe8zeIH1reSZOssw/NSEo2ct5uRVYN6SFT mHrc7yEuSTfcfeUDlembNnn/DKMjsqqrCY7pz1uLf6uTGPes/d+EsnHjG9RskmxrA/PA qkYwgAFo9KI65Imt/0+BPnJgDbix7jSb0Ppe0E3Oy7mwEspwtmpptXAO8p8fJJRHihEm pPdouPy1L9NsAzj4skCAoCBh9RHO89vf5QV0pmsbwEXeYQrSPfrnHse8ARhFIDXaSNpt sAng== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=l/x+Rs6sjmkO60LPzBAGEajiLOjnleaOmoSFAu26L0Y=; b=Qc0N+kz8S+30Zo8m0x2Gb/zQ21h2xyTucd3/f3W1y2pPgzPN5ny7fDpQidfyPBZ+wA U36VWZaPre5zUuZO1tBiaTiDxJcJtJBSSXhHE57DDbi6pyim7wzailLvQPBUo8U9ZJEp ELuRWxlrXJ8JUZ0OK5G7oyyHu54GKzKQeNWepmymP5oW2EWRKo6Wijl08ft4EOp+XcTM VcUIkJSvB0Gu3pfV0MHLZnmASFPatttB4OgZxLeH3dhA32gocrDzmZPtlKOu+9sDoYzZ 8NFD6l7ZMigHJ5ns2eOG84PPZTFWQ6HEzaB/xwksxxL7l3lXYaj3I4rgqUCPRouJ1FOU uc9g== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FUV5HTi2jffzraxWSB9+j+yjUECMHniMF97GIasdlasgb84mBZ9Dz5oFjlN5iabG56T X-Received: by 10.194.175.168 with SMTP id cb8mr2086299wjc.56.1463734528227; Fri, 20 May 2016 01:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jp2sm18710341wjc.16.2016.05.20.01.55.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 20 May 2016 01:55:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Panu Matilainen Cc: Neil Horman , dev@dpdk.org, Bruce Richardson , Stephen Hemminger Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:55:26 +0200 Message-ID: <2679234.W5Qx41Uy7C@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1463431287-4551-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <20160519120031.GC4128@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 4/4] pmdinfo.py: Add tool to query binaries for hw and other support information X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 08:55:28 -0000 2016-05-20 08:22, Panu Matilainen: > Ability to query individual DSOs is a building block for other things > like automation (you dont expect normal users to go manually loading hw > support modules for the OS either), but its not an end-user solution. > > Thomas said in http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-May/038324.html: > > "This tool should not behave differently depending of how DPDK was > compiled (static or shared)." I meant the basic tool must be usable on static binary and shared library. > Its entirely possible to handle all the three above cases virtually > identically (point the tool to the app executable), so I have a hard > time understanding the level of resistance to handling the plugin case. We need first a basic tool. Then we'll check how to build on it for end user needs. I think you have some good ideas. We could also try (later) to inspect a running DPDK app.