Bridging the Gap - Bringing HPE Gen11 into the OpenBMC Mainline

Learn how HPE and 9elements collaborated to bring upstream OpenBMC support to HPE's DL360 Gen11 servers in this 20-minute conference talk. Discover the technical journey of modernizing a 3-year-old downstream firmware fork and integrating it into the OpenBMC mainline. Explore the challenges overcome in implementing secure boot, image signing, and remote validation processes. Understand how the osfci.tech platform facilitated continuous hardware testing throughout the development cycle and examine how HPE's ownership processes impact firmware development agility. Gain insights into HPE's new managed OpenBMC support offering for enterprise platforms, designed to make open firmware a viable solution for enterprise environments.