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- Patent Title: Technologies for secure and efficient native code invocation for firmware services
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Application No.: US16392863Application Date: 2019-04-24
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Publication No.: US11222119B2Publication Date: 2022-01-11
- Inventor: Sarathy Jayakumar , Mohan J. Kumar , Ron Story , Mahesh Natu
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Compass IP Law, PC
- Main IPC: G06F9/04
- IPC: G06F9/04 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F9/448 ; G06F9/4401

Abstract:
Technologies for secure native code invocation include a computing device having an operating system and a firmware environment. The operating system executes a firmware method in an operating system context using a virtual machine. In response to invoking the firmware method, the operating system invokes a callback to a bridge driver in the operating system context. In response to the callback, the bridge driver invokes a firmware runtime service in the operating system context. The firmware environment executes a native code handler in the operating system context in response to invoking the firmware runtime service. The native code handler may be executed in a de-privileged container. The firmware method may process results data stored in a firmware mailbox by the native code handler, which may include accessing a hardware resource using a firmware operation region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190251264A1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR SECURE AND EFFICIENT NATIVE CODE INVOCATION FOR FIRMWARE SERVICES Public/Granted day:2019-08-15
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