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UEFI Forum

Non-profit trade organization based in Oregon

Summary

Non-profit trade organization based in Oregon

Field	Value
name	The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum
logo	Logo of the UEFI Forum.svg
logo_size	150px
type	Collaborative trade organization
foundation	2005
location_city	Beaverton, Oregon
location_country	United States
key_people	Mark Doran, Dong Wei, Michael Rothman, Vincent Zimmer
industry	Firmware
products	Specifications
homepage	www.uefi.org

UEFI Forum, Inc. is an alliance between technology companies to coordinate the development of the UEFI specifications. The board of directors includes representatives from twelve promoter companies: AMD, American Megatrends, ARM, Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Insyde Software, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies.

Overview

The non-profit corporation has assumed responsibility for the management and promotion of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification, a bootloader and runtime interface between platform firmware and an operating system. The original EFI specification was developed by Intel and was used as the starting point from which the UEFI versions were developed. The goal of the organization is to replace the aging PC BIOS.

In addition to the UEFI specification, the forum is responsible for a UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specification, which addresses the firmware internal architecture as well as firmware-to-hardware interfaces. The forum also is responsible for Self-Certification Test suites, which defines conformance to the specifications that it defines.

In October 2013, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) assets have also been transferred into the forum.{{cite web | archive-date = 2012-09-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120914012029/http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec50.pdf | url-status = dead

Published specifications

UEFI Specification version 2.8, published March, 2019
UEFI Shell Specification version 2.2, published January 26, 2016
UEFI Platform Initialization Specification version 1.7, published January, 2019
UEFI Platform Initialization Distribution Packaging Specification version 1.1, published January, 2016
ACPI Specification version 6.4, published January 2021

Obsolete specifications

UEFI Specification version 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
UEFI Platform Initialization Specification version 1.0, 1.1

References

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