SUPPORTING A SECURE READABLE MEMORY REGION FOR PRE-BOOT AND SECURE MODE OPERATIONS

摘要

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining whether an address map of a system includes support for a read only region of system memory, and if so configuring the region and storing protected data in the region. This data, at least some of which can be readable in both trusted and untrusted modes, can be accessed from the read only region during execution of untrusted code. Other embodiments are described and claimed.