UEFI 2.10 and ACPI 6.5 specifications released
“We are excited to share the new Conformance Profiles feature, responsive to community pull for a way to make the UEFI Forum’s work useful,” said Mark Doran, UEFI Forum President. “The Conformance Profiles feature will expand the platform types UEFI can support to an ever wider range of platform types like IoT, embedded and automotive spaces – beyond general purpose computers.”
UEFI 2.10 Specification Highlights:
- Introducing UEFI Conformance Profiles, allowing support for more types of platforms and implementation codebases
- Crypto agility including SHA-384/SHA-512 signing scheme for Authenticated Variables support
- Emerging LoongArch and RISC-V processor architecture support
- Add confidential computing extension
ACPI 6.5 Specification Highlights:
- CXL Memory support
- LoongArch processor architecture support
- Confidential Computing event log support
- USB-C USB4 support