On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:37:50 -0500 (CDT),
"David A. Gatwood" <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:
> > 
> > Seriously, though, they could put an hfs lkm in the miniroot, and load
> > it during the boot before installation, couldn't they?
> 
> It's in the Mach Kernel part, which doesn't actually use a miniroot.  The
> Booter INIT runs the Mach Kernel, which gets data on the hardware and then
> loads the default_pager and the vmlinux server from the root partition as
> specified in the lilo.conf file (the lilo.conf file is read by the Booter
> while still in MacOS).  Normally that's a MkLinux partition, but when
> using the RedHat installer (pre-DR3), that root partition is an HFS
> partition.  The vmlinux *server* (the installer itself) has a miniroot,
> but by this time, the Mach Kernel has already loaded the vmlinux server
> from an HFS partition.

Ah, OK, so MK has to have a minimal HFS support built in, just like it
had to have a minimal UFS support back in CMU Mach days.

If that's the case, it sure looks like a case of license infringement.
IIRC, the CMU license terms are very similar to those of UCB, of which
covered code and its derivatives cannot be later GPL'ed (OSF MK is
still under CMU license as well as OSF license, isn't it?)

Ken