Dong Wei
Dong Wei is an Arm Fellow and Lead Standards Architect of the Architecture and Technology Group in Arm Limited. Dong joined Arm in 2016. He leads the Arm SystemReady compliance program as well as PC BSA specification with definitions of the hardware, firmware requirements for the Arm-based systems. He also leads the system manageability and security requirements for these systems. In this standards-based effort, he covers industry standards such as PCI Express, TCG, CXL, UCIe, UEFI/ACPI, DMTF, and OCP.
Arm SystemReady Workshop: Open Platforms and Firmware Development
Building firmware that can boot an unmodified operating system across different Arm platforms requires more than implementing UEFI or ACPI. It also requires a practical understanding of open firmware standards, validation tools, and common integration issues.
This workshop introduces the open-source Arm SystemReady Architecture Compliance Suite (ACS) from a firmware developer's perspective. Participants will learn how to prepare a platform, run compliance tests, interpret results from UEFI SCT, FWTS, and BSA/SBSA tests, and investigate common firmware issues that affect OS boot and interoperability.
Beyond the testing flow, the session will provide an overview of the Arm SystemReady program, recent updates, and the open tools and reference platforms available to help developers build firmware that supports standard operating systems. The goal is to help firmware engineers adopt open standards earlier in development, reduce integration effort, and improve software portability across the Arm ecosystem.
State of the UEFI: Open Firmware Standards Across Modern Computing Platforms
The UEFI Forum is a global technology consortium that advances firmware innovation through industry collaboration while developing and maintaining the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), Platform Initialization (PI), and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specifications. Together, these standards provide the foundation for platform initialization, firmware bootstrap, system configuration, power management, security, and operating system interoperability across modern computing platforms.
A key strength of these specifications is their architecture-neutral design. Today, UEFI, PI, and ACPI are deployed across x86, Arm, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems, helping to enable a consistent software experience across an increasingly diverse hardware ecosystem.
In this State of the UEFI session, UEFI Forum President Dong Wei will provide an overview of the UEFI Forum, recent developments in the UEFI, PI, and ACPI specifications, the Forum’s working group structure, Code First process. Attendees will learn how organizations and individuals can participate in future specification development and collaborate with the broader firmware community.
The session will also highlight ongoing collaboration between the UEFI Forum and adjacent open-source communities, including the Open Compute Project (OCP) Open Platform Firmware (OPF) Project, where Dong serves as a Steering Committee representative. Attendees will learn about emerging opportunities for synergy between OCP initiatives such as OpenSFI and UPCI and the UEFI Forum’s standards efforts.
Finally, attendees will receive updates on key industry topics including platform security, confidential computing, post-quantum cryptography, and other trends shaping the future of open firmware.