I mean, 

if i'm using a R750 server which has VMware ESXi running on it and the I350 network interface card on the server requires firmware version update then i can found different file format, such as .BIN and .exe, for the same firmware version.

However, using .BIN file isn't convenient to update comparing to the .exe file, which is accepted by the iDRAC web GUI to upload directly.

So the question is, despite firmware file formats are different but they still provide the same content, right?

for example, i can use .exe format file to update the server's NIC despite the linux OS is running on it, and it is equivalent to .bin format file ?