What’s the difference between firmware and drivers?

Question

I’ve heard drivers described as “the translation layer between software and hardware”

If that’s the case, then wtf does firmware do?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Essentially Firmware and Drivers are both sides of the same coin.

The Firmware is the code that runs on the hardware, and the drivers are the code that runs on your machine. Only the drivers understand how to talk to the firmware, the operating system does not on its own understand how to talk to hardware.