NVIDIA's upstream OpenBMC progress, challenges, and roadmap
Over the past year, NVIDIA has deepened its investment in upstream OpenBMC, shifting from downstream patches toward upstreamt development. This talk covers what's landed upstream, and the tradeoffs in choosing to contribute rather than fork. We'll discuss the challenge of aligning fast-moving platform requirements with OpenBMC's community cadence, and how NVIDIA is restructuring internal workflows to reduce drift from upstream. Looking forward, we'll outline near-term priorities: and areas where closer collaboration with the community is needed.
Deepak Kodihalli is a Principal Engineer at Nvidia, where he leads the architecture of OpenBMC for the company's platforms. He is also actively working on contributing Nvidia's OpenBMC modifications back to the upstream community.