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| author | Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> | 2021-02-12 11:40:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> | 2021-02-12 16:18:31 +0100 |
| commit | b7ede165aed04e86345926849f9436676fad52bd (patch) | |
| tree | 4f0ffb2621a8252f1e96a8b34e5f8f07e33d09ca | |
| parent | 63a9293fd1e681763297df6f35f031e015d7f149 (diff) | |
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 <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
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, |