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A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal)A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal)Posted Aug 18, 2005 22:28 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal) by rknop Parent article: A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal)
there's a huge difference between needing a firmware blob and binary-only drivers.
the firmware runs on the card in question, and if it was held in flash or ROM there would be no question about it. the firmware is dependant on the hardware details, but is completely independant of the OS.
the drivers are part of the OS and very sensitive to changes in that OS, as a result binary-only ones can't work reliably across different versions.
both of these are significant issues in their own way, but please do not mix them up
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