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Modular and Blade Systems | <strong>Intel</strong> Developer Forum - September 2009<br />

Advancing <strong>the</strong> platform<br />

• Complete <strong>UEFI</strong> 2.1 / PI 1.0 firmware implementation (Power on to boot selection)<br />

• Strong/Modular framework<br />

– Global Development (4+ time zones)<br />

– Interoperability with Internal teams, partners, and vendors<br />

– Allowing feature b<strong>as</strong>ed development<br />

– Common code b<strong>as</strong>e<br />

• Seamlessly support legacy environment<br />

– IBM Surepath CSM (Legacy x86 BIOS support for legacy OS support)<br />

– Touchless CSM invocation - auto detection of boot option(<strong>UEFI</strong>/legacy)<br />

– <strong>UEFI</strong> Cl<strong>as</strong>s 2 – supporting both <strong>UEFI</strong> boot and legacy boot Operating Systems<br />

• Standardized Pre-boot Security<br />

– TPM 1 hardware enablement<br />

– TCG 2 and Core Root of Trust for Me<strong>as</strong>urement support (CRTM)<br />

– Secure Update methods<br />

– Attend IDF Session EFIS001 for more details<br />

– IBM/<strong>Intel</strong> collaborative Whitepaper “Trusted Platforms: <strong>UEFI</strong>,PI and TCG-b<strong>as</strong>ed firmware”<br />

14<br />

1<br />

TPM: Trusted Platform Module<br />

2<br />

TCG: Trusted Computing Group<br />

© 2009 IBM Corporation

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