On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 03:17:39PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@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.kozl...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
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
>
