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Line 1: {{Redirect\|Binary blob\|the database data type\|Binary large object}} {{short description\|~~Closed-source device driver~~Software published only in binary code}} ~~A '''proprietary device driver''' is a closed-source [[device driver]] published only in [[binary code]].~~ In the context of [[free and open-source software]], ~~a [[Proprietary~~proprietary software~~\|closed-source]]~~ ~~device~~only ~~driver~~available as a binary is referred to as a '''blob''' or '''binary blob'''. The term usually refers to a ~~closed-source~~[[device driver]] [[Loadable kernel module\|~~kernel~~ module]] [[Linker (computing)\|loaded]] into the [[Kernel (computer science)\|kernel]] of an open-source [[operating system]], and is sometimes also applied to code running outside the kernel, such as system [[firmware]] images, [[microcode]] updates, or [[User space\|userland]] programs.<ref>{{cite web \| url = https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NDc \| title = Coreboot: Replacing Intel's Binary Video BIOS Blob

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