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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:36:33 +0000
From:      "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
To:        svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r210175 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinpsuOsvGV=3KA3idg5z_47KO2kKWBXoCsK8RZt@mail.gmail.com>

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Peter Jeremy wrote:
>On 2010-Aug-16 00:06:35 +0200, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>We still support PLIP (with a laplink cable) since a plip0 interface
>>is displayed on this screen during installation if you have a parallel
>>port on the motherboard.
>
>Has anyone actually verified that it still works?  I know I haven't
>used it for more than a decade.

It worked when I tested it not so long ago, after John Baldwin made it mpsafe:

http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=187576

Slow, but occasionally useful.

b.



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