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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Leon Polishuk, Haifa, IL;

Pavel Konev, Haifa, IL;

Larisa Novakovsky, Haifa, IL;

Julius Mandelblat, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 12/126 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for initialization of a processor. Embodiments relate to alleviating any BIOS code size limitation. In one example, a system includes a memory having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) program comprising a readable code region and a readable and writeable data stack, a circuit coupled to the memory and to: read, during a boot mode and while using a cache as RAM (CAR), at least one datum from each cache line of the data stack, and write at least one byte of each cache line of the data stack to set a state of each cache line of the data stack to modified, enter a no-modified-data-eviction mode to protect modified data from eviction, and to allow eviction and replacement of readable data, and begin reading from the readable code region and executing the BIOS program after entering the no-modified-data-eviction mode.


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