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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:36:40 -0500 X-MC-Unique: 1asXq0aWNk6UrLi6fcgXVA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE869801962; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.115.138] (ovpn-115-138.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.115.138]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679895D735; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:36:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Bruce Richardson , Thomas Monjalon Cc: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com, Dmitry Kozlyuk References: <20210212110431.940131-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20210212141739.1013748-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20210212142956.GC970@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> From: Kevin Traynor Message-ID: <9f50fafb-7b2d-64ae-7255-244b3cbeda52@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:36:36 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210212142956.GC970@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=ktraynor@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12/02/2021 14:29, Bruce Richardson wrote: > 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". > yep, just about to send a doc patch for that. >> + >> >> 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 >> >