Intel Corporation

Shihui Li

Vincent J Zimmer

Willard M Wiseman

Jiewen Yao

Nicholas J Adams

Qin Long

Kevin Yufu Li

Zijian You

Dujian Wu

Donggui Yin

An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to identify a partial set of populated memory channels from a full set of populated memory channels of a multi-channel memory system, and complete a first boot of an operating system with only the identified partial set of memory channels of the multi-channel memory system. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

First boot with one memory channel

An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: an out-of-band cryptoprocessor including secure non-volatile storage that couples to a root index, having a fixed address, and comprises first and second variables referenced by the root index; and semiconductor integrated code (SIC) including embedded processor logic to initialize a processor and embedded memory logic to initialize a memory coupled to the processor; wherein (a) the SIC is to be executed responsive to resetting the processor and prior to providing control to boot code, and (b) the SIC is to perform pre-boot operations in response to accessing at least one of the first and second variables. Other embodiments are described herein.

Trusted boot and runtime operation

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Shihui Li