From b7ede165aed04e86345926849f9436676fad52bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Kozlyuk Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:40:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add pmdinfogen rewrite to release notes 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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Bruce Richardson --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst index 64e220f2ac..743f1505ef 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst @@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ 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. + + If not available as a distribution package, it can be installed with:: + + pip3 install pyelftools + New Features ------------ @@ -180,6 +190,13 @@ 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, -- 2.20.1