Information on pmdinfogen may be useful to 3rd party driver developers.
Include documentation on what it does
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman
CC: Bruce Richardson
CC: Thomas Monjalon
CC: Stephen Hemminger
CC: Panu Matilainen
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/dev_kit_build_system.rst | 43 --
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/dev_kit_build_system.rst
b/doc/guides/prog_guide/dev_kit_build_system.rst
index 3e89eae..1dc1388 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/dev_kit_build_system.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/dev_kit_build_system.rst
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Each build directory contains include files, libraries, and
applications:
...
~/DEV/DPDK$ ls i686-native-linuxapp-gcc
-app build hostapp include kmod lib Makefile
+app build buildtools include kmod lib Makefile
~/DEV/DPDK$ ls i686-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ These Makefiles generate a binary application.
* rte.extapp.mk: External application
-* rte.hostapp.mk: Host application in the development kit framework
+* rte.hostapp.mk: prerequisite tool to build dpdk
Library
^^^
@@ -304,6 +304,45 @@ Misc
* rte.subdir.mk: Build several directories in the development kit framework.
+.. _Internally_Generated_Build_Tools:
+
+Internally Generated Build Tools
+
+
+``app/pmdinfogen``
+
+
+``pmdinfogen`` scans an object (.o) file for various well known symbol names.
These
+well known symbol names are defined by various macros and used to export
+important information about hardware support and usage for pmd files. For
+instance the macro:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER(drv, name)
+
+
+Creates the following symbol:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static char this_pmd_name0[] __attribute__((used)) = "";
+
+
+Which pmdinfogen scans for. Using this information other relevant bits of data
+can be exported from the object file and used to produce a hardware support
+description, that pmdinfogen then encodes into a json formatted string in the
+following format:
+
+.. code-block:: C
+
+ static char ="PMD_INFO_STRING=\"{'name' : '',
...}\"";
+
+
+These strings can then be searched for by external tools to determine the
+hardware support of a given library or application.
+
+
.. _Useful_Variables_Provided_by_the_Build_System:
Useful Variables Provided by the Build System
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