[RyanTheTide]

Add a GPL-2.0-only checker for public device inventories and compiled Apple DTBs, and run its base-versus-head ratchet in dt-checks. It rejects a per-board MISSING increase, newly broken DT paths, and removed inventory devices. Disabled nodes count as represented, not operational.

The four fleet manifests now use each board's saved live source: complete live ADTs for J616s and Neo, and live IODeviceTree captures for M1 Pro and M2. Runtime IOKit services and mirrored PCI enumeration entries are excluded. This removes template-only pruned instances while retaining every static device observed in those sources. The generator, inputs and mapping/source audits remain private; the public export contains only reviewed device names, addresses, DT paths and waiver reasons.

All remaining records map to a DT node or an exact reasoned waiver. The 84 added waiver rules are board/path-specific, with zero new wildcard rules: live-table virtual PMGR votes without power-state registers, internal DP855 firmware access/write-protection views, and logical accessory-port relationships. Driver absence is not a waiver. RSM/dart-rsm are absent from the selected saved live J616s source and are not inferred from a different template.

Merge #1172 first. This branch merges the same describe-only DTS prerequisite so the inventories can be checked independently while that PR is reviewed. All published history is preserved through merges; no force push was used.

Validation on the buildbox, with dtschema on PATH and the required apple-dt-check.sh, against integration bd8602eeb268 and the merge of posted head ac3dff954872 (811dc602a263):

new warnings: 0, removed: 0
binding ok: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/apple,avellino.yaml
binding ok: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/apple,radio-pmu.yaml
binding ok: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/apple,stockholm-spmi.yaml
binding ok: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/apple,pcie.yaml
binding ok: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/apple,atcrt.yaml
binding ok: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thunderbolt/apple,t8103-usb4-acio.yaml
binding ok: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thunderbolt/apple,t8103-usb4-nhi.yaml
new status = "okay" lines: 0
new cpu-idle-states lines: 0

The coverage CI command and strict mode both pass:

t6000-j316s: MISSING=0 mapped=481 waived=231 broken=0 total=712
t6040-j616s: MISSING=0 mapped=595 waived=307 broken=0 total=902
t8112-j413: MISSING=0 mapped=398 waived=216 broken=0 total=614
t8140-j700: MISSING=0 mapped=356 waived=232 broken=0 total=588

All 18 public checker tests and 14 private generator regressions pass. The committed manifests match regeneration from all four saved live sources; the public export check and 40/40 independently decoded source/DTB MMIO samples pass. Compiled enabled-CPU idle-state references are unchanged on all four boards. No target hardware was changed.

DT3 confirmed the published #1172 head merges cleanly into integration f8273fb7a148; the handoff order is #1172, then #1111.

[DjDeveloperr]

Merged integration/aurora (95e30d5) into this branch as 603ad6c, with no conflicts. Against the merged DTBs the checker tests pass 18/18 and all four inventories still resolve (J316s 71, J616s 80, J413 63, J700 0 MISSING; 0 broken paths). The DTBs are identical to integration.