From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [Celinux-dev] Invitation and RFC: Linux Plumbers Device Tree track proposed Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 09:34:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8251B150E4DF5041A62C3EA9F0AB2E0603A53FE1082E@SELDMBX99.corpusers.net> <5543EE80.5060109@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-compiler-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Rob Herring Cc: Rob Landley , "Rowand, Frank" , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "devicetree-compiler-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-embedded-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "celinux-dev-idqoXFIVOFIh9xQPArXXUATG8MYbGj4l@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Rob On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Rob Landley wrote: >> On 04/11/2015 02:20 PM, Rowand, Frank wrote: >>> In recent years there have been proposed tools to aid in the creation of valid >>> device trees and in debugging device tree issues. An example of this is the >>> various approaches proposed (with source code provided) to validate device tree >>> source against valid bindings. As of today, device tree related tools, >>> techniques, and debugging infrastructure have not progressed very far. I have >>> submitted a device tree related proposal for the Linux Plumbers 2015 conference >>> to spur action and innovation in such tools, techniques, and debugging >>> infrastructure. >>> >>> The current title of the track is "Device Tree Tools, Validation, and >>> Troubleshooting". The proposal is located at >>> >>> http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2015:device_tree_tools_validation_and_trouble_shooting >> >> Want I want to do is: >> >> 1) Download an archive of device tree files describing a bunch of >> boards. (Both dts and corresponding dtb files, with maybe a .txt telling >> me about the board and the -append line qemu needs to give it any >> board-specific kernel command line stuff like "console=myserialport".) > > The dts half is here[1]. It is a kernel repository automatically > stripped of everything but dts files. > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/devicetree/devicetree-rebasing.git/ Great! While "git log" has the "--nomerges" option, cgit hasn't, making it hard to see the actual changes through the forest of merges. Any chance merge commits not causing any changes can be stripped out, too? Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds