Re: [Celinux-dev] Invitation and RFC: Linux Plumbers Device Tree track proposed

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Rob

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Rob Landley <rob-VoJi6FS/r0vR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> 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

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