From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756601AbbEEHeN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 03:34:13 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com ([209.85.218.49]:34086 "EHLO mail-oi0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752667AbbEEHeJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 03:34:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <8251B150E4DF5041A62C3EA9F0AB2E0603A53FE1082E@SELDMBX99.corpusers.net> <5543EE80.5060109@landley.net> Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 09:34:08 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: lJnxf0r6rXNdN54mz8uAmWi80hU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Celinux-dev] Invitation and RFC: Linux Plumbers Device Tree track proposed From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Rob Herring Cc: Rob Landley , "Rowand, Frank" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree-compiler@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org" , "celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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@linux-m68k.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