System and method of preventing speculative reading during memory initialization

System and method of preventing speculative reading during memory initialization

The following description relates to microprocessors, and more particularly to microprocessors that use speculative reading. A method of initializing random access memory during a BIOS process executed by a processor that is configured to perform speculative reading. The ROM BIOS is modified such th...

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Hauptverfasser: Jue, Stephen D, Mendelow, Matthew B
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The following description relates to microprocessors, and more particularly to microprocessors that use speculative reading. A method of initializing random access memory during a BIOS process executed by a processor that is configured to perform speculative reading. The ROM BIOS is modified such that speculative reading is prevented during the memory initialization.