[v2] doc: add pmdinfogen rewrite to release notes
Checks
Commit Message
From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@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.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
Comments
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 03:17:39PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@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.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@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
>
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 <dmitry.kozliuk@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.kozliuk@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@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".
>
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
>>
>
@@ -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,