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====== Devicetree (& Embedded) Mini-conference ======

STATUS: A Devicetree Workshop will be held in conjunction with **Kernel Summit in Prague**. The Devicetree workshop will be held Thursday afternoon, **26 October 2017**. This page is being used to organise the workshop agenda

**There will not be a Devicetree miniconference at Linux Plumbers Conference this year.**

=== Proposed Topics ===
Agenda for this microconference is being worked out now. To propose a topic, please add the topic title and your name to the list below.
  * YAML DT encoding (Grant & Pantelis)
  * Validation using JSON Schema (Grant)
  * Devicetree.org Update (Grant & Mark R.)
  * Advanced Tooling for DT (Julia)
  * <Title> (lead and other key participants)

=== Possible topics of interest ===
Other possible topics for this miniconference 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

===== Key Attendees =====

* 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)
  * David Gibson (dtc and other tools maintainer)
  * Jon Loeliger (dtc and other tools maintainer)
  * Thomas Petazzoni
  * Geert Uytterhoeven
  * Olof Johansson
  * Lucas Stach
  * Julia Lawall
  * other subsystem maintainers

===== Schedule =====

The schedule of the 2017 DeviceTree Plumbers Microconference is as follows. Note presentation slides can be found on the Plumbers page by following the links to the abstracts:
  * Session 1 - TBD
  * etc...

===== Discussion notes =====

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.

https://etherpad.net/p/Devicetree_Workshop_2017

===== Contact =====

Runner: Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>

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