I have written drivers for Solaris 2.4, and somehow I didn't get this
perception. Yes, you can use thread-like synchronization primitives
but it was really executing in a process context.
Of course, when there are multiple CPUs, it is true (I think) that
there might be two processes running in kernel mode, which appear in
that context to be kernel threads since their address space is shared.
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