SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESETTING A PLATFORM CONFIGURATION REGISTER

    公开(公告)号:MY137187A

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-30

    申请号:MYPI20031055

    申请日:2003-03-25

    Applicant: INTEL CORP

    Abstract: A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESETTING AND MODIFYING SPECIAL REGISTERS IN A SECURITY TOKEN IS DESCRIBED. IN ONE EMBODIMENT, A REGISTER MAY BE RESET WHEN A RESET FLAG IS TRUE WHEN A SPECIAL TRANSMISSION ON A BUS DEMONSTRATES THE MUTUAL LOCALITY OF THE ASSOCIATED PROCESSOR AND CHIPSET. A MODIFY FLAG MAY ALSO BE USED TO INDICATE WHETHER THE REGISTER CONTENTS MAY BE MODIFIED. MODIFICATIONS MAY ALSO BE DEPENDENT UPON DEMONSTRATION OF MUTUAL LOCALITY.

    Method and apparatus for loading a trustable operating system

    公开(公告)号:GB2402521A

    公开(公告)日:2004-12-08

    申请号:GB0419314

    申请日:2003-02-13

    Applicant: INTEL CORP

    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided in which a trustable operating system is loaded into a region in memory. A start secure operation (SSO) triggers a join secure operation (JSO) to halt all but one central processing unit (CPU) in a multi-processor computer. The SSO causes the active CPU to load a component of an operating system into a specified region in memory, register the identity of the loaded operating system by recording a cryptographic hash of the contents of the specified region in memory, begin executing at a known entry point in the specified region and trigger the JSO to cause the halted CPUs to do the same.

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