Laurent FAILLIE <l_faillie@yahoo.com> writes:

> 2/ Can I upgrade my kernel to the latest stable 3.1
> w/o reinstalling all the user land (I don't have the
> time to deal w/ a full upgrade actually) ?

Sure, that's extremely unlikely to cause problems.

> 3/ Is someone working on this nasty threading problem
> on Sparc architecture ?

Yes, in general SA threading is replaced with 1:1 threads in current.
This seems just about shaken out, but it's still very new and likely
has a few bugs left.  This will be in 5.0 but not 4.0.