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1.90 deraadt 17: <h2><font color=#e00000>Hardware wanted</font><hr></h2>
1.1 deraadt 18:
1.90 deraadt 19: <h3><font color=#e00000>Why do we want your old hardware?</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 20: <p>
21: The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
22: Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver
23: support for devices which are rare; other requests are for hardware that
24: will improve our development environment. In either case, we think we are
1.78 deraadt 25: being reasonable at asking for these devices.<p>
1.1 deraadt 26:
1.78 deraadt 27: If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you
1.96 aaron 28: search on <a href=http://www.ebay.com>eBay</a> for the devices. If
1.78 deraadt 29: you do the bidding and then get the device shipped to us, it really
30: helps us. It's much better if our developers do not need to spend the
31: time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be
1.109 niklas 32: spend on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>
33:
1.110 ! aaron 34: As a reasonably large quantity of OpenBSD developers and users are in northern
1.109 niklas 35: Europe we have setup a specific want list for that area. If you are in that
1.110 ! aaron 36: region, go <a href=#n-eur>here</a> first to check what developers close
1.109 niklas 37: to you are in need of or want to work on support for.
1.22 deraadt 38:
1.90 deraadt 39: <h3><font color=#e00000>Additional Notes</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 40: <p>
1.90 deraadt 41: Notes:
42: <dl>
43: <li>In each case, please contact
1.1 deraadt 44: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>
1.2 mickey 45: before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where
1.90 deraadt 46: the hardware needs to be shipped to).<p>
47: <li>As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
48: for some of these things.<p>
49: <li>When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service,
50: because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.<p>
51: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 52:
1.90 deraadt 53: <hr>
1.22 deraadt 54:
1.90 deraadt 55: <h3><font color=#e00000>The want list</font></h3>
56: <dl>
57: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Alpha hardware</font></h4>
1.51 deraadt 58: <ul>
59: <li>Some alpha hardware in Europe and North America.
60: <li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
61: Multia and axppci33 models.
62: <li>If we do not get some of these, we are not going to
1.96 aaron 63: ship OpenBSD/alpha on the 2.6 CD-ROM (it isn't worth our effort).
1.51 deraadt 64: </ul>
65: <p>
1.90 deraadt 66: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>i386 gear</font></h4>
1.89 deraadt 67: <ul>
1.104 deraadt 68: <li>SMP machines.<br>
69: Finally, we are asking people to donate SMP machines to us so that
70: we can start work on SMP development. We need about 4-5 machines
71: for starters, in the USA, Canada, and Sweden.
1.93 brad 72: <li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
1.90 deraadt 73: <li>BT445S VL SCSI card.
1.96 aaron 74: <li>Intel i82586/i82596-based Ethernet cards
75: (i.e., BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA,
1.90 deraadt 76: Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,
1.108 rohee 77: AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)
1.89 deraadt 78: </ul>
79: <p>
1.90 deraadt 80: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sparc gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 81: <ul>
1.104 deraadt 82: <li>2 ss10 or ss20 machines for our poor and starving developer art@openbsd.org,
83: so that he can add hypersparc support.
1.96 aaron 84: <li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines.
85: <li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
86: <li>SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
1.40 deraadt 87: <li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
1.76 deraadt 88: <li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
1.96 aaron 89: <li>SBUS bpp card.
1.107 deraadt 90: <li>MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.
91: <li>More hypersparc modules.
92: <li>fast SS5 or SS20 machines.
1.74 deraadt 93: <li>Tadpole S3GX.
1.40 deraadt 94: </ul>
95: <p>
1.90 deraadt 96: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCI gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 97: <ul>
1.99 deraadt 98: <li>Two Intel Gigabit PCI cards.
1.106 smurph 99: <li>Adaptec 786x-based PCI SCSI boards
100: <li>Adaptec 787x-based PCI SCSI boards (2940, etc...)
101: <li>Adaptec 788x-based PCI SCSI boards (Ultra cards)
102: <li>Adaptec 789x-based PCI SCSI boards (Ultra2 cards)
1.96 aaron 103: <li>D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet cards
104: <li>SiS 900 or 7016-based Ethernet cards
1.45 niklas 105: <li>Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus
106: for RAIDframe testing.
1.96 aaron 107: <li>S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card
108: <li>A wide variety of PCI IDE controllers (Promise, etc)
109: <li>Initio PCI SCSI cards
110: <li>A DEC PCI fddi card
111: <li>Intel FXP with National Semiconductor (DP83840, nsphy) phy Ethernet card
1.40 deraadt 112: </ul>
113: <p>
1.106 smurph 114: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>EISA gear</font></h4>
115: <ul>
116: <li>An EISA machine.
117: <li>Adaptec 777x-based EISA SCSI boards
118: <li>Adaptec AHA-274x EISA SCSI boards
119: <li>Adaptec AHA-284x EISA SCSI boards
120: <li>Adaptec AHA-284xB EISA SCSI boards
121: </ul>
122: <p>
1.90 deraadt 123: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 124: <ul>
1.75 deraadt 125: <li>Really fast PC motherboard+cpu combinations. To increase our
126: development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
127: need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
1.96 aaron 128: <li>A small FDDI concentrator.
129: <li>A fairly large UPS (Calgary).
1.105 deraadt 130: <li>A Hardware RAID solution.
131: <li>DLT backup changer.
1.40 deraadt 132: </ul>
1.3 deraadt 133: <p>
1.90 deraadt 134: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Amiga gear</font></h4>
135: <ul>
1.96 aaron 136: <li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast SCSI
1.15 deraadt 137: and slots for cheap memory.
1.90 deraadt 138: </ul>
1.5 espie 139: <p>
1.90 deraadt 140: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>HPPA gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 141: <ul>
1.52 mickey 142: <li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)
1.100 mickey 143: <li>HP 9000/712/100 (upgrade for 712/80, HP A4222A)
1.52 mickey 144: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd RS-232 port card (HP A4013A)
145: <li>HP 9000/712 lan and RS-232 card (HP A4014A)
146: <li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
147: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics card (HP A2878A)
148: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
149: <li>HP 9000/712 TeleShare POTS iface, analog RJ11C (HP A4012A, HP A4012AJ)
150: <li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488,
151: see <a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hp-ib712.htm">TAMS</a>)
1.40 deraadt 152: </ul>
153: <p>
1.90 deraadt 154: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear</font></h4>
1.50 smurph 155: <ul>
1.72 smurph 156: <li>MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
1.106 smurph 157: <li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
1.91 smurph 158: <li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
1.72 smurph 159: <li>1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)
1.50 smurph 160: </ul>
161: <p>
1.97 rahnds 162: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PowerPC hardware</font></h4>
163: <ul>
164: <li>Apple G4 Server configuration machine.
165: <li>PowerBook G3 system.
166: <li>iBook system.
167: <li>iMac DV system.
168: <li>Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
1.106 smurph 169: <li>Any 603, 604, or 750 based Motorola MVME PowerPC based Single
170: board computers.
1.97 rahnds 171: </ul>
172: <p>
1.90 deraadt 173: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>ISAPNP cards</font></h4>
174: We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become
175: very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:<p>
1.40 deraadt 176: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 177: <li>Some NE2000 and SMC ISAPNP cards.
178: <li>ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
1.40 deraadt 179: <li>WSS audio card.
1.96 aaron 180: <li>CSxxx audio card, that definitely has MIDI support.
1.40 deraadt 181: </ul>
182: <p>
1.90 deraadt 183: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA</font></h4>
184: Any bizzare unused devices, including:<p>
1.40 deraadt 185: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 186: <li>A number of ISA->PCMCIA bridge cards.
1.96 aaron 187: <li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM
1.67 deraadt 188: <li>EtherExpress 100 pcmcia.
1.40 deraadt 189: <li>PC Card Specifications (PC Card Standard - Release 6.1)
1.78 deraadt 190: <li>ATA PCMCIA cards.
191: <li>ATA Flash cards.
1.40 deraadt 192: </ul>
1.105 deraadt 193: <p>
194: <a href="http://www.synchrotech.com/products/card-rw_08.html">
195: PCI->PCMCIA adapters</a>
1.7 art 196: <p>
1.90 deraadt 197: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Miscellaneous</font></h4>
1.46 jason 198: <ul>
1.106 smurph 199: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further
200: SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
201: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External.
202: Also needed for new SCSI driver devlopment.
1.46 jason 203: <li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
1.70 deraadt 204: <li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
1.73 deraadt 205: <li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have. It's a mess,
206: and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
207: devices in use!
1.46 jason 208: </ul>
1.47 jason 209: <p>
1.90 deraadt 210: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Documentation</font></h4>
211: <ul>
212: <li>POSIX.1 specifications document, printed.
213: <li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document, printed.
1.106 smurph 214: <li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
215: <li>MVME327 SCSI documentation.
1.90 deraadt 216: </ul>
217: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 218:
1.109 niklas 219: <a name=n-eur></a>
220: <h3><font color=#e00000>Want list for Nothern Europe</font></h3>
221: <dl>
222: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>SMP hardware</font></h4>
223: <ul>
224: <li>SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
225: <li>Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
226: <li>SMP-capable alpha computers.
227: </ul>
228: <p>
229: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Storage</font></h4>
230: <ul>
231: <li>Wide, Ultra-wide & LVD SCSI disks.
232: <li>Reasonably large tape device (>10GB uncompressed),
233: preferrably with a changer. SCSI preferred, ATAPI may do.
234: <li>Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
235: <li>Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.
236: </ul>
237: <p>
238: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA & Cardbus</font></h4>
239: <ul>
240: <li>ISA-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards</li>
241: </ul>
242: <p>
243: </dl>
244:
1.1 deraadt 245: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 246:
247: <h3><font color=#e00000>Previously Donated</font></h3>
1.34 deraadt 248: Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the
249: following items which we requested here. Those people are listed in
250: the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>. Thanks!
1.33 deraadt 251: <p>
252: <ul>
1.96 aaron 253: <li>SBUS qec+qe Ethernet card
254: <li>SBUS hme fast Ethernet card
1.33 deraadt 255: <li>ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
1.96 aaron 256: <li>ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 Ethernet card
257: <li>PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW SCSI card
1.37 mickey 258: <li>EISA Bustek 740C
1.40 deraadt 259: <li>Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
1.96 aaron 260: <li>A fast 4GB SCSI disk drive
1.40 deraadt 261: <li>Adaptec 1535
262: <li>New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
1.96 aaron 263: <li>SBUS isp fast-wide SCSI card
1.49 deraadt 264: <li>64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
1.58 mickey 265: <li>Intel EtherExpress 16
1.96 aaron 266: <li>hp735 AUI Ethernet card
1.65 mickey 267: <li>GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse,
268: hd brackets
1.67 deraadt 269: <li>ISAPNP GUS sound card
270: <li>ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
271: <li>Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
1.68 deraadt 272: <li>Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
1.72 smurph 273: <li>MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
274: <li>MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)
1.82 mickey 275: <li>3COM 3C507 Card
1.86 deraadt 276: <li>Syskonnect SK-9843 Gigabit PCI card
277: <li>3com 3c985-SX Gigabit PCI card
278: <li>Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.
279: <li>Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.
280: <li>pcmcia 260MB ATA card.
1.96 aaron 281: <li>9GB fast-wide differential SCSI disk.
282: <li>fast-wide differential SCSI cable.
1.90 deraadt 283: <li>ISAPNP modem.
284: <li>Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.
285: <li>SM81-1 (partial donation from <a href=http://www.memoryx.com>MemoryX</a> (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)
1.91 smurph 286: <li>MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
287: <li>MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
1.92 deraadt 288: <li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual
1.99 deraadt 289: <li>A medium-sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado).
1.101 deraadt 290: <li>MBus ROSS HyperSPARC 125MHz cpu module.
291: <li>AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for
292: Mac development)
293: <li>Sun type4 keyboard.
1.103 jason 294: <li>3Com 3c900b Ethernet card
1.33 deraadt 295: </ul>
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