>
>
>
> For wireless drivers the firmware is actually a binary blob on the hard
> disk. The blob is loaded from the hard disk by the kernel everytime the
> system boots up and is loaded into the device. So the firmware has nothing
> to do with what is happening in Windows. It is like this mainly due to
> some regulatory requirements for radio frequency devices.
>
> In case of nVidia drivers, when you upgraded the kernel, the driver was
> unchanged but the glue code for interfacing the driver to the kernel
> (which was written to avoid opening up the drivers) had to be recompiled
> to match the running kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Senthil
>
>
Thanks Senthil.

Regards,
Ashish
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