In message <9610171446.ZM10347@warhol>
          Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk> wrote:

> In theory it would be possible. I think this comes under the heading of
> 'writing a new operating system' though. Unfortunately you would still have
> problems because the memory-protection also relies on cache flushing. This
> does truely horrible things to our dirty-bit emulation and means that SA
> RiscBSD is probably prone to paging out its working-set.

I think it's up to ARM/DEC to come up with a decent cache flushing mechanism
for the StrongARM.
After all, this beast isn't only used in small embedded applications, but also
for running operating systems in the RiscPC, the NetSurfer and the Newton which
all suffer from this problem.

Markus