interface forum type collaborative trade organization industry firmware founded 2005 headquarters beaverton oregon united states key people mark doran dong wei michael rothman vincent zimmer products specifications website www.uefi.org the unified extensible firmware interface forum or uefi forum is an alliance between several leading technology companies to modernize the booting process . the board of directors includes representatives from twelve promoter companies amd american megatrends apple dell hewlett packard enterprise hp inc. ibm insyde software intel lenovo microsoft and phoenix technologies . contents 1 overview 2 published specifications 3 obsolete specifications 4 see also 5 references 6 external links overview edit 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 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 . in october 2013 the advanced configuration and power interface acpi assets have also been transferred into the forum . 1 the forum is responsible for the management and promotion of future acpi specifications which provides static tables at boot time and dynamic control methods as the primary runtime interfaces between the os and system firmware for system configuration power management and ras reliability availability and supportability features . acpi revision 5.0 2 is used as the starting point from which future acpi version s will be developed . published specifications edit uefi specification version 2.4 published july 2013 uefi shell specification version 2.0 errata a published may 2012 uefi platform initialization specification version 1.3 published july 2013 uefi platform initialization distribution packaging specification version 1.0 errata a published may 2011 obsolete specifications edit uefi specification version 2.0 2.1 2.2 uefi platform initialization specification version 1.0 1.1 see also edit efi references edit acpi and uefi forum join forces here s why it matters . fixedbyvonnie.com . 2013 11 13 . retrieved 2013 11 17 . advanced configuration and power interface specification revision 5.0 pdf . acpi.info . 2011 12 06 . retrieved 2013 11 17 . external links edit official website fedora uefi support microsoft windows uefi support book beyond bios book harnessing the uefi shell book chapter uefi from reset vector to operating system book beyond bios 2nd edition updated with uefi2 .3 and pi1 .2 intel technology journal volume 15 issue 01 uefi today bootstrapping the continuum this article about a business industry or trade related organization is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title unified efi forum & oldid 735257629 categories biosbusiness organization stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages dansk polskisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 19 august 2016 at 15 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view