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doc: add pmdinfogen rewrite to release notes

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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>
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@ -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,