MCTP and PLDM Enhancements for Advanced OCP Use Cases

Patrick Caporale,Hemal Shah, Lenovo,Broadcom - OCP has been leveraging DMTF Management Components Transport Protocols (MCTP) and Platform Level Data Model (PLDM) for the management of accelerators (OAMs) and OCP NICs. MCTP specifications have been extended to cover new physical media bindings and host interfaces. PLDM specifications recently added support for file transfer, multi-part data transfers, CXL memory model, and accelerator management. In this talk, we will describe the latest updates to MCTP, and PLDM specifications, and how they can be leveraged for advanced OCP use cases.