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February 2019

UEFI Forum Releases PI Spec 1.7

UEFI Forum Releases PI Spec 1.7

UEFI Forum Releases PI Spec 1.7

Some excitement: the UEFI Forum officially released the newest version of the Platform Initialization spec, PI v1.7, today, 6 Feb 2019. D...

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