[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] doc/linux_gsg: require pyelftools for pmdinfogen

Dmitry Kozlyuk dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 15:24:29 CEST 2020


On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 08:52:57 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:02:32AM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> > The package is available on all major distributions.
> > FreeBSD has no system requirements section in its GSG,
> > Windows currently neither uses pmdinfogen not is supported by it.
> >   
> Why doesn't windows use pmdinfogen?  That tool doesn't relate to DSO function
> versioning, it just generates additional symbols for binaries so that we can see
> what pmd support is in a given ELF file

Windows uses COFF instead of ELF. I'm planning to add COFF support to
pmdinfogen in a separate patch and also put wrapper script there. In this
series I'd like to focus on just rewriting existing functionality.

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Dmitry Kozlyuk


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