[v3,3/4] doc/linux_gsg: require pyelftools for pmdinfogen

Message ID 20200708005355.7102-4-dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series pmdinfogen: rewrite in Python |

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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

Commit Message

Dmitry Kozlyuk July 8, 2020, 12:53 a.m. UTC
  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.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index a124656bc..ef2037ca7 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@  Compilation of the DPDK
     * If the packaged version is below the minimum version, the latest versions
       can be installed from Python's "pip" repository: ``pip3 install meson ninja``
 
+*   ``pyelftools`` (version 0.22+)
+
+    * For RHEL/Fedora systems it can be installed using ``dnf install python-pyelftools``
+
+    * For Ubuntu/Debian it can be installed using ``apt install python3-pyelftools``
+
 *   Library for handling NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access).
 
     * ``numactl-devel`` in RHEL/Fedora;