Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 2 months agoIntel Arc B580 tested in five games on Linux; you’re better off sticking with an AMD GPU for nowwww.pcguide.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down11
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•2 months agoIntel refers to them as drivers. I was once trained to consider drivers and modules the same thing, but there appears to be a distinguishing difference. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47208/what-is-the-difference-between-kernel-drivers-and-kernel-modules
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 months agoMost kernel level drivers are modules (though they don’t have to be compiled that way), but many modules are things other than drivers.
Intel refers to them as drivers.
I was once trained to consider drivers and modules the same thing, but there appears to be a distinguishing difference.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47208/what-is-the-difference-between-kernel-drivers-and-kernel-modules
Most kernel level drivers are modules (though they don’t have to be compiled that way), but many modules are things other than drivers.
That’s accurate to the second link.