Intel Corporation
Decoupling Silicon Initialization and Bootloader by providing Silicon Initialization Service

Abstract:

An electronic device is disclosed, including a first set of processor cores including at least one processor core and a second set of processor cores including at least one processor core. The electronic device is configured such that during initialization of the electronic device: the first set of processor cores executes first initialization instructions in a first execution environment, the second set of processor cores executes second initialization instructions in a second execution environment, and the first set and the second set at least one of read or write to a shared register.