[$] Moving Google toward the mainline

Two Google engineers came to OpenSource Summit North America 2021 to talk about a project to change theway the company creates and maintains the kernel it runs in its datacenters on its productionsystems. Andrew Delgadillo and Dylan Hatch described the current productionkernel (Prodkernel) and the problems that occur because it is so far fromthe mainline. Project Icebreaker is an effort to change that and toprovide a near-mainline kernel for development and testing within Google;the talk looked at the project, its risks, its current status, and its plans.