[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] pmdinfogen: rewrite in Python

[Neil Horman]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 12:23:31AM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> This patchset implements existing pmdinfogen logic in Python, replaces
> and removes the old code. The goals of rewriting are:
> 
> * easier maintenance by using a more high-level language,
> * simpler build process without host application and libelf.
> 
> Travis CI script is adjusted to install python3-pyelftools, but other CI
> systems may need similar tweaking. Particularly, testing on FreeBSD and
> big-endian targets is desired.
> 
> ---
> Changes in v4:
> 
> Fix build by removing redundant check.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> 
> 1. Rebase on ToT, add package to CI.
> 2. Add copyrights, fixup maintainers file.
> 3. Remove C implementation.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> 1. pyelftools is used instead of hand-written ELF parser.
> 2. Makefiles are adjusted.
> 3. f-strings replaced with % formatting to support Python 3.5.
> 4. Wrapper script does not hide stderr from ar and pmdinfogen.
> 
> ---
> Dmitry Kozlyuk (4):
>   pmdinfogen: add Python implementation
>   build: use Python pmdinfogen
>   doc/linux_gsg: require pyelftools for pmdinfogen
>   pmdinfogen: remove C implementation
> 

I'm not currently setup to test with cross compiling, but for direct targets
(tested on power and x86), it seems to work well

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>