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

[Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>]

+Ian

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Rob
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> 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?

That's a question for Ian.

Rob