公开(公告)号：US10515218B2

公开(公告)日：2019-12-24

申请号：US15283381

申请日：2016-10-01

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Sergiu D Ghetie ,  Neeraj S. Upasani ,  Sagar V. Dalvi ,  David P. Turley ,  Jeanne Guillory ,  Mark D. Chubb ,  Allen R. Wishman ,  Shahrokh Shahidzadeh

IPC: G06F21/57 ,  G06F21/72

Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein include, but are not limited to, a hardware processor to execute instructions and security circuitry to perform pre-boot operations including signature verification of a portion of firmware in a firmware storage hardware and initiating recovery upon a signature verification failure. The hardware processor comprises a plurality of cores in some embodiments. The hardware processor a multicore processor in some embodiments.