+Frank Rowand (mailing lists) On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 8:06 AM darknighte <darknighte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The Devicetree Microconference has been accepted into the 2018 Linux > Plumbers Conference, which will be held in Vancouver, British > Columbia, Canada from Tuesday, November 13 through Thursday, November > 15. If you are interested in speaking, please contact myself, or > co-leader Frank Rowand (on CC), to request a slot. > > For more details, here is the LPC announcement : > > We are pleased to announce the the Devicetree Microconference > has been accepted into the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference! > > Devicetree provides hardware description for many platforms, such > as Linux [1], U-Boot [2], BSD [3], and Zephyr [4]. Devicetree > continues to evolve to become more robust and attempt to provide the > features desired by the varied users. > > Some of the overlay related needs are now being addressed by > U-boot, but there remain use cases for run time overlay management in > the Linux kernel. Support for run time overlay management in the Linux > kernel is slowly moving forward, but significant issues remain [5]. > > Devicetree verification has been an ongoing project for several years, > with the most recent in person discussion occurring at the Devicetree > Workshop [6] at Kernel Summit 2017. Progress continues on mail lists, > and will be an important topic at the microconference. > > Other Devicetree related tools, such as the dtc compiler and libfdt [7] > continue to see active development. > > Additional possible issues to be discussed may include potential > changes to the Flattened Device Tree (FDT) format, reducing the > Devicetree memory and storage size in the Linux kernel, creating new > architecture to provide solutions to current problems, updating the > Devicetree Specification, and using devicetrees in constrained contexts. > > LPC [8] will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada > from Tuesday, November 13 through Thursday, November 15. > > [1] https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_Reference > [2] https://github.com/lentinj/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.fdt-control > [3] https://wiki.freebsd.org/FlattenedDeviceTree > [4] http://docs.zephyrproject.org/devices/dts/device_tree.html > [5] https://elinux.org/Frank%27s_Evolving_Overlay_Thoughts > [6] https://elinux.org/Device_tree_future#Kernel_Summit_2017.2C_Devicetree_Workshop > [7] https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_Reference#dtc_.28upstream_project.29 > [8] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/
