Call for speakers for the Devicetree Microconference @ the 2018 LPC in Vancouver

Call for speakers for the Devicetree Microconference @ the 2018 LPC in Vancouver

[darknighte]

The Devicetree Microconference has been accepted into the 2018 Linux
Plumbers Conference, which will be held in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada from Tuesday, November 13 through Thursday, November
15.  If you are interested in speaking, please contact myself, or
co-leader Frank Rowand (on CC), to request a slot.

For more details, here is the LPC announcement :

We are pleased to announce the the Devicetree Microconference
has been accepted into the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference!

Devicetree provides hardware description for many platforms, such
as Linux [1], U-Boot [2], BSD [3], and Zephyr [4]. Devicetree
continues to evolve to become more robust and attempt to provide the
features desired by the varied users.

Some of the overlay related needs are now being addressed by
U-boot, but there remain use cases for run time overlay management in
the Linux kernel. Support for run time overlay management in the Linux
kernel is slowly moving forward, but significant issues remain [5].

Devicetree verification has been an ongoing project for several years,
with the most recent in person discussion occurring at the Devicetree
Workshop [6] at Kernel Summit 2017. Progress continues on mail lists,
and will be an important topic at the microconference.

Other Devicetree related tools, such as the dtc compiler and libfdt [7]
continue to see active development.

Additional possible issues to be discussed may include potential
changes to the Flattened Device Tree (FDT) format, reducing the
Devicetree memory and storage size in the Linux kernel, creating new
architecture to provide solutions to current problems, updating the
Devicetree Specification, and using devicetrees in constrained contexts.

LPC [8] will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
from Tuesday, November 13 through Thursday, November 15.

[1] https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_Reference
[2] https://github.com/lentinj/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.fdt-control
[3] https://wiki.freebsd.org/FlattenedDeviceTree
[4] http://docs.zephyrproject.org/devices/dts/device_tree.html
[5] https://elinux.org/Frank%27s_Evolving_Overlay_Thoughts
[6] https://elinux.org/Device_tree_future#Kernel_Summit_2017.2C_Devicetree_Workshop
[7] https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_Reference#dtc_.28upstream_project.29
[8] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/