Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 11, 2006 09:54 AM
No, they're not device driver blobs. They're firmwares for the devices' own CPUs and DRAMs. Totally different ball of wax. Now, something like nVidious's or ATCry's binary video drivers, *those* are binary device driver blobs, because those actually run as part of the OS kernel (e. g. Linux) itself, on the system's main CPU. Same with Intel's 3945 "Centrino" binary driver for Linux.
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Re:Hmm
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 11, 2006 09:54 AM#