From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
---
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.
+
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,
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2.30.0
