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Date:	Tue, 5 May 2015 09:34:08 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	"Rowand, Frank" <Frank.Rowand@...ymobile.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree-compiler@...r.kernel.org" 
	<devicetree-compiler@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org" <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	"celinux-dev@...ts.celinuxforum.org" 
	<celinux-dev@...ts.celinuxforum.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Celinux-dev] Invitation and RFC: Linux Plumbers Device Tree
 track proposed

Hi Rob

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.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?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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