I’ve heard drivers described as “the translation layer between software and hardware”
If that’s the case, then wtf does firmware do?
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Drivers are software that tells the hardware how to interact with each other.
Firmware tells the hardware it’s a part of how to act. It operates lights and mechanisms on the device.
User says “do this”
The computer’s software interprets that and tells the driver “I want to do this”
The driver translates that to what the other device can understand and says “do this”
The firmware gets those instructions, and does the thing.
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