Tag: STM

STM added to Tianocore

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Intel has submitted a patch to Tianocore to add STM support!

[edk2] [patch 0/4] Add STM (Smi Tranfer Monitor) support

This patch series is used to add STM support to UefiCpuPkg. More details about STM are described in:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/manuals/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-manual-325462.pdf
https://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/STM_User_Guide-001.pdf
https://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/A_Tour_Beyond_BIOS_Launching_STM_to_Monitor_SMM_in_EFI_Developer_Kit_II.pdf

28 files changed, 6036 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)

More info:
https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
https://firmwaresecurity.com/tag/stm/

 

Intel SMI Transfer Monitor (STM) for SMM

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Recently, Intel announced STM, a way to help secure SMM.
https://firmwaresecurity.com/2015/08/18/intel-announces-stm-at-idf/

So far, it appears the some of the expert firmware security researchers do not dissapprove of STM, though they wanted it earlier:

Intel announces STM at IDF

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Intel just announced STM at IDF, read Vincent’s blog for more details:

http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2015/08/smi-transfer-monitor-stm-unleashed.html

https://firmware.intel.com/content/smi-transfer-monitor-stm

https://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/STM_Release_1.0.zip

Click to access A_Tour_Beyond_BIOS_Launching_STM_to_Monitor_SMM_in_EFI_Developer_Kit_II.pdf

Click to access STM_User_Guide-001.pdf