| Message ID | 20210212141739.1013748-1-thomas@monjalon.net (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Superseded, archived |
| Delegated to: | Thomas Monjalon |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [v2] doc: add pmdinfogen rewrite to release notes | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ci/checkpatch | success | coding style OK |
| ci/travis-robot | fail | travis build: failed |
| ci/intel-Testing | success | Testing PASS |
| ci/Intel-compilation | success | Compilation OK |
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 >> >
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. + 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,