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.
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)
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
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
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: