Xuehao Hu / David Hu
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Xuehao Hu / David Hu

dhu@x6u.co
c/o Google NYC
111 8th Ave
New York, NY 10011

Currently at Google, I focus on CPU boot firmware for x86 and Arm64 servers, server appliances, IPUs and accelerators for Google's datacenters, through which I picked up a keen interest in embedded systems. I am also involved in various open firmware collaborations with other hyperscalers, silicon design and firmware vendors.

Updates

  • 10/07/2025
    Keynote: Planet Scale Deployment of LinuxBoot at Google
    Sunnyvale, California, USA
    [recording] [slides]
  • 09/21/2022
    Talk: Kexec Evolutions for LinuxBoot
    Göteborgsvägen, Mölndal, Sweden
    [recording] [slides]

Linux Kernel Development PGP

My commits and tags for Linux kernel development are signed with the following key:

Fingerprint:
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Public Key:

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