Unified EFI Forum

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company_name = The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum
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company_type = Collaborative trade organization
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foundation = 2005
location_city = Beaverton, Oregon
location_country = USA
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industry = Firmware
products = Specifications
homepage = [http://www.UEFI.org/ www.UEFI.org] The Unified EFI Forum or UEFI Forum (where UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is an alliance between several leading technology companies including AMD, American Megatrends, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Insyde Software, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies.

Overview

The non-profit corporation has assumed responsibility for the management and promotion of the EFI 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 version(s) 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 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.

Published specifications

* "UEFI Platform Initialization Specification version 1.1", published February 22, 2008
* "UEFI Specification version 2.1", published January 23, 2007

Obsoleted specifications

* "UEFI Specification version 2.0", published January 31, 2006
* "UEFI Platform Initialization Specification version 1.0", published October 31, 2006

External links

* [http://www.uefi.org Official website]