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by agumonkey 3468 days ago
I never wrote a single driver, but I believe all bets are off with hardware. Drivers can execute logic on the cpu and on the chip, it's probably wild.
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laumars 3468 days ago
Drivers can execute code wherever they want in addition to the CPU but CPU will always be needed at some point.
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derefr 3468 days ago
Right; "drivers" that run only on a microcontroller in the device, don't touch the host's CPU, are called firmware. :)
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