On 11/26/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding's is that all drives are using an abstraction layer > between the kernel and the drivers itself. > > Now, I don't know if there is a difference between drivers for a single > processor kernel and a multiple core kernel. So, first question is if > there is a difference or not. This for the SAS drivers in Sun server.
in a sense, that is true. on the i386 platform, up and smp kernels use different interrupt code, which may result in some differences.