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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2017
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1441 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for secure hardware initialization during a start-up process comprises activating a protected portion of a physical memory, allocating a part of the protected portion of the physical memory for use by direct memory access, DMA, drivers and non-DMA related hardware initialization instructions, and using a memory management tool, allocating a first part of the physical memory, accessible by a device via the memory management tool, for use by data.