Intel Corporation

Maciej Kusio

Prashant Dewan

Karunakara Kotary

Aditya Katragada

Andrzej Mialkowski

Vinupama Godavarthi

Kar Leong Wong

An apparatus to implement an IP independent secure firmware load into an IP agent without a ROM to establish hardware root of trust is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of agents, at least one agent including an isolated memory region accessible only to a trusted entity of the at least one agent and a main memory, and a processor to allocate a section of the isolated memory region of the at least one agent, verify a first stage firmware module, the first stage firmware module comprising instructions to enable the at least one agent to load and verify a second stage firmware module, place the first stage firmware module into memory of the at least one agent without a ROM to establish the hardware root of trust.

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Folsom, CA, United States of America

Maciej Kusio