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Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud
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Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud is a Distinguished Engineer and System Architect at Arm Architecture and Technology Group (ATG). He has 25 years of experience specializing in server firmware and system design, remote management, and industry standards. His current work focuses on system architecture for Arm-based servers and PCs. Samer has a long history of contribution to industry standards and related open source projects, including the UEFI Forum, DMTF, OCP, CXL, UCIe, OpenBMC, TianoCore, and the Arm System Architecture Advisory Council (SystemArchAC).

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Country:

USA

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Arm

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/elhajmahmoud/

Github:

https://github.com/samerhaj

Session

10-07
16:15
30min
Developing OpenBMC Firmware on Arm Servers Using the Arm Fixed Virtual Platform (FVP)
Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud

This talk introduces an open platform and proof-of-concept for developing OpenBMC firmware on Arm servers using the Neoverse Fixed Virtual Platform (FVP). Co-developed by Arm and 9elements, the platform enables early development and validation of BMC features—such as telemetry, RAS logging, and Redfish—before silicon is available. The session highlights system architecture, SBMR-defined interfaces, and key lessons from enabling server manageability in a virtualized Arm environment.

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