Kernel 2.6

From: mtc (mtc_at_privat.dk)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:44:52 +0100

I've have recently been installing the 2.6 kernel as an rpm downloaded from
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/

Today I tried upgrading from 2.6-test7 to 2.6.test9 and received the
following error..

[root@localhost kernels]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.67.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        kernel = 2.4.20-18.9 is needed by (installed)
kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-18.9

...so I tried installed the 'SMP' version
'kernel-smp-2.6.0-0.test9.1.67.i586.rpm',
which installed OK.

Can anybody give me an educated answer as to what the difference is between
these 2 rpms.?
What is 'SMP' an abbreviation of.?
 

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