Introduction

Welcome to dtup. A devicetree toolchain for better developer experience when developing devicetrees in an embedded environment.

dtup is an open-source and free-software project. It’s repository is hosted on GitHub under this URL: https://github.com/omekina/dtup

In this book we will take a look at how to get started with dtup and how to run it’s tools on your project. As the project is written in Rust—it has extended cross-platform compatibility and you should be fine whether running it on Linux, MacOS or even Windows. It’s also somewhat Android-compatible, but that’s not officially supported.

The goals of dtup

dtup aims to be easy-to-use and friendly to newcomers to devicetree development. It over-explains everything instead of just telling you something is wrong somewhere near some line. This is the primary goal—to achieve ideal error verbosity so the developer using this toolchain can instantly tell what’s wrong.

Current scope

Currently, dtup is a validator and a visualizer. It can be used to view or check a devicetree before submitting a compilation job and building the whole system with a potentially broken devicetree.