The Linux Plumbers 2016 Device Tree track primary areas of interest are:
future direction of the core device tree code (drivers/of/, scripts/dtc/libfdt/)
subsystem device tree support
verification and validation of device trees
debugging tools and techniques (static (build and pre-boot) and dynamic (boot and run-time))
DT toolchain
OF core support for debugging
OF unit tests
adding device tree support to drivers
designing and implementing drivers for effective debugging
impact of overlays (boot and run-time updates to the device tree)
bindings
binding review process and status
documentation
The goal is to improve:
creation of correct device trees
validation of device trees
the quality of the core device tree code
correct use of device tree by drivers
ease of use of device tree for driver developers
ease of use of device tree for system administrators
Rob Herring (device tree maintainer, device tree bindings maintainer)
Grant Likely (device tree maintainer)
Frank Rowand (device tree maintainer)
Pawel Moll (device tree bindings maintainer)
Mark Rutland (device tree bindings maintainer)
Ian Campbell (device tree bindings maintainer)
Tomasz Figa (validation)
Benoit Cousson (validation)
Fabien Parent (validation)
Stephen Warren (validation)
Pantelis Antoniou (overlays)
Kumar Gala (device tree bindings)
Thomas Petazzoni
Geert Uytterhoeven
Olof Johansson
other subsystem maintainers
Devicetree Specification
Overview
Organization and process
Current status
Current Plan
Issues
Tools and techniques to aid Devicetree debugging
Devicetree bindings validation
Future direction of core kernel code
Locking
Reference counting
Overlays
Connectors
etc
What goes into a devicetree
The device creation and driver binding ordering swamp
The schedule of the 2016 Tracing Plumbers Microconference is as follows. Note presentation slides can be found on the Plumbers page by following the links to the abstracts:
This is a good place to record notes from your session. All too often, if notes were not written down, the session might as well not have happened.