2018 OCP Regional Summit

This session articulates Intel’s implementation of open source platform initialization, optimized for web-scale cloud firmware.  Intel’s UEFI based open firmware is optimized for faster boot times, and is packaged to deliver Intel Silicon Init code as a stand-alone package that can be integrated into Open Source platform packages. The open source platform packages contain board specific code that can be ported across platforms, and also provides open source UEFI core. Layered on top of this is Platform Firmware Interface tables to support OS boot. In addition, this session discusses Intel’s proposal in eliminating runtime SMI usages and providing alternatives for secure platform event handling in runtime.