during time period 640 validates and registers the memory resident copy of svmm after the copy of svmm is registered in the pcr 278 of security token 276 the memory resident copy of svmm itself begins execution at this time during ongoing time period 650 svmm operations are established in the ilp among the first things that the ilp svmm operation does is issue individual rlp join messages on the system bus 230 an example is a processor 222 join message 644 this message may include a location in memory at which the rlp processor 222 may join in execution of the registered memory resident copy of svmm alternatively the ilp svmm operations may have registered a memory location in a predetermined location in the chipset or memory and upon receiving the join message the rlp retrieves its starting address from this location after receiving the processor 222 join message and determining its starting address during time period 646 the rlp processor 222 jumps to this location and joins execution of the registered memory resident copy of the svmm after all the rlps have joined the registered memory resident copy of the svmm secured operations are established throughout the microcomputer system 200 referring now to fig7 a flowchart of software and other process blocks is shown according to one embodiment of the present invention for the sake of clarity fig7 only shows process blocks for a single representative rlp in other embodiments there may be several responding logical processors the.