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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
1.118 deraadt 32: spent on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>
1.109 niklas 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>
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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>
1.111 deraadt 59: <li>Some alpha hardware in North America.
1.51 deraadt 60: <li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
61: Multia and axppci33 models.
1.111 deraadt 62: <li>If we do not get some of these very soon, we are not going to
63: ship OpenBSD/alpha on the 2.7 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>
1.93 brad 68: <li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
1.90 deraadt 69: <li>BT445S VL SCSI card.
1.115 mickey 70: <li>Aironet 4500/4800 in PCMCIA, ISA, and PCI form factors.
1.96 aaron 71: <li>Intel i82586/i82596-based Ethernet cards
72: (i.e., BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA,
1.90 deraadt 73: Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,
1.108 rohee 74: AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)
1.89 deraadt 75: </ul>
76: <p>
1.90 deraadt 77: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sparc gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 78: <ul>
1.111 deraadt 79: <li>SS20.
1.96 aaron 80: <li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines.
81: <li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
82: <li>SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
1.40 deraadt 83: <li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
1.76 deraadt 84: <li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
1.107 deraadt 85: <li>MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.
1.111 deraadt 86: <li>More very fast hypersparc modules.
1.74 deraadt 87: <li>Tadpole S3GX.
1.40 deraadt 88: </ul>
89: <p>
1.90 deraadt 90: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCI gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 91: <ul>
1.99 deraadt 92: <li>Two Intel Gigabit PCI cards.
1.106 smurph 93: <li>Adaptec 786x-based PCI SCSI boards
1.96 aaron 94: <li>D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet cards
95: <li>SiS 900 or 7016-based Ethernet cards
1.45 niklas 96: <li>Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus
97: for RAIDframe testing.
1.96 aaron 98: <li>S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card
99: <li>Initio PCI SCSI cards
1.111 deraadt 100: <li>A DEC PCI FDDI card
1.40 deraadt 101: </ul>
102: <p>
1.113 aaron 103: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>USB gear</font></h4>
104: <ul>
1.119 aaron 105: <li>Any USB devices will help immensely
106: <li>USB Ethernet interfaces
107: <li>USB Zip Drives, USB Floppy Drives, USB CDRW
108: <li>USB Printers
109: <li>USB Modems
110: <li>Diamond Rio MP3 Player
111: <li>Handspring Visor
112: <li>Any other miscellaneous devices with USB connectors
1.113 aaron 113: </ul>
114: <p>
1.119 aaron 115: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA</font></h4>
116: <ul>
117: <li>Any CardBus cards, especially Ethernet and SCSI.
118: <li>A number of ISA->PCMCIA and PCI->CardBus bridge cards.
119: <li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM
120: <li>EtherExpress 100 pcmcia.
121: <li>PC Card Specifications (PC Card Standard - Release 6.1)
122: <li>ATA PCMCIA cards.
123: <li>ATA Flash cards.
124: </ul>
125: <p>
126: <a href="http://www.synchrotech.com/products/card-rw_08.html">
127: PCI->PCMCIA adapters</a>
128: <p>
1.90 deraadt 129: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 130: <ul>
1.75 deraadt 131: <li>Really fast PC motherboard+cpu combinations. To increase our
132: development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
133: need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
1.96 aaron 134: <li>A small FDDI concentrator.
135: <li>A fairly large UPS (Calgary).
1.105 deraadt 136: <li>A Hardware RAID solution.
137: <li>DLT backup changer.
1.111 deraadt 138: <li>2 or 3 brand new U2W or LVD 9GB or larger disk drives.
1.40 deraadt 139: </ul>
1.3 deraadt 140: <p>
1.123 deraadt 141: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Amiga gear (contact espie@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
1.90 deraadt 142: <ul>
1.96 aaron 143: <li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast SCSI
1.15 deraadt 144: and slots for cheap memory.
1.90 deraadt 145: </ul>
1.5 espie 146: <p>
1.123 deraadt 147: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>HPPA gear (contact mickey@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
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1.40 deraadt 149: <ul>
1.52 mickey 150: <li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)
1.100 mickey 151: <li>HP 9000/712/100 (upgrade for 712/80, HP A4222A)
1.52 mickey 152: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd RS-232 port card (HP A4013A)
153: <li>HP 9000/712 lan and RS-232 card (HP A4014A)
154: <li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
155: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics card (HP A2878A)
156: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
157: <li>HP 9000/712 TeleShare POTS iface, analog RJ11C (HP A4012A, HP A4012AJ)
158: <li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488,
159: see <a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hp-ib712.htm">TAMS</a>)
1.40 deraadt 160: </ul>
161: <p>
1.123 deraadt 162: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear (contact smurph@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
1.50 smurph 163: <ul>
1.72 smurph 164: <li>MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
1.106 smurph 165: <li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
1.91 smurph 166: <li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
1.72 smurph 167: <li>1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)
1.123 deraadt 168: <li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
169: <li>MVME327 SCSI documentation.
1.50 smurph 170: </ul>
171: <p>
1.123 deraadt 172: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PowerPC hardware (contact rahnds@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
1.97 rahnds 173: <ul>
174: <li>Apple G4 Server configuration machine.
175: <li>PowerBook G3 system.
176: <li>iBook system.
177: <li>iMac DV system.
178: <li>Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
1.106 smurph 179: <li>Any 603, 604, or 750 based Motorola MVME PowerPC based Single
180: board computers.
1.97 rahnds 181: </ul>
182: <p>
1.123 deraadt 183: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sun3 gear (contact miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
1.122 miod 184: <ul>
185: <li>sun-3 VME scsi cards.
186: <li>VME ethernet cards.
187: <li>Carerra (3/1x0) 2 or 4mb memory boards.
188: <li>Sirius (3/2x0) 8 or 32Mb memory boards.
189: <li>An empty 12-slot VME backplane.
190: <li>Xylogics 750 VME controller.
191: <li>SMD disks.
192: </ul>
193: <p>
1.90 deraadt 194: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>ISAPNP cards</font></h4>
195: We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become
196: very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:<p>
1.40 deraadt 197: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 198: <li>ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
1.40 deraadt 199: <li>WSS audio card.
1.96 aaron 200: <li>CSxxx audio card, that definitely has MIDI support.
1.40 deraadt 201: </ul>
202: <p>
1.90 deraadt 203: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Miscellaneous</font></h4>
1.46 jason 204: <ul>
1.106 smurph 205: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further
206: SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
207: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External.
208: Also needed for new SCSI driver devlopment.
1.46 jason 209: <li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
1.70 deraadt 210: <li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
1.73 deraadt 211: <li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have. It's a mess,
212: and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
213: devices in use!
1.46 jason 214: </ul>
1.47 jason 215: <p>
1.90 deraadt 216: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Documentation</font></h4>
217: <ul>
218: <li>POSIX.1 specifications document, printed.
219: <li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document, printed.
220: </ul>
221: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 222:
1.109 niklas 223: <a name=n-eur></a>
1.123 deraadt 224: <h3><font color=#e00000>Want list for Northern Europe (contact niklas@openbsd.org [Sweden])</font></h3>
1.109 niklas 225: <dl>
226: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>SMP hardware</font></h4>
227: <ul>
228: <li>SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
229: <li>Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
230: <li>SMP-capable alpha computers.
231: </ul>
232: <p>
233: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Storage</font></h4>
234: <ul>
1.116 niklas 235: <li>Large (8-18 GB) laptop IDE disks.
1.121 smurph 236: <li>Wide, Ultra-wide and Ultra2, & Ultra160 LVD SCSI disks.
1.109 niklas 237: <li>Reasonably large tape device (>10GB uncompressed),
238: preferrably with a changer. SCSI preferred, ATAPI may do.
239: <li>Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
1.117 espie 240: <li>Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.
1.109 niklas 241: </ul>
242: <p>
243: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA & Cardbus</font></h4>
244: <ul>
1.117 espie 245: <li>ISA-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards</li>
1.109 niklas 246: </ul>
1.116 niklas 247: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Gigabit</font></h4>
248: <ul>
249: <li>Other than Alteon Tigon based NIC(s)</li>
250: <li>Other than Netgear gigabit switch</li>
251: </ul>
1.109 niklas 252: <p>
253: </dl>
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1.1 deraadt 255: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 256:
257: <h3><font color=#e00000>Previously Donated</font></h3>
1.34 deraadt 258: Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the
259: following items which we requested here. Those people are listed in
260: the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>. Thanks!
1.33 deraadt 261: <p>
262: <ul>
1.96 aaron 263: <li>SBUS qec+qe Ethernet card
264: <li>SBUS hme fast Ethernet card
1.33 deraadt 265: <li>ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
1.96 aaron 266: <li>ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 Ethernet card
267: <li>PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW SCSI card
1.37 mickey 268: <li>EISA Bustek 740C
1.40 deraadt 269: <li>Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
1.96 aaron 270: <li>A fast 4GB SCSI disk drive
1.40 deraadt 271: <li>Adaptec 1535
272: <li>New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
1.96 aaron 273: <li>SBUS isp fast-wide SCSI card
1.49 deraadt 274: <li>64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
1.58 mickey 275: <li>Intel EtherExpress 16
1.96 aaron 276: <li>hp735 AUI Ethernet card
1.65 mickey 277: <li>GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse,
278: hd brackets
1.67 deraadt 279: <li>ISAPNP GUS sound card
280: <li>ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
281: <li>Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
1.68 deraadt 282: <li>Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
1.72 smurph 283: <li>MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
284: <li>MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)
1.82 mickey 285: <li>3COM 3C507 Card
1.86 deraadt 286: <li>Syskonnect SK-9843 Gigabit PCI card
287: <li>3com 3c985-SX Gigabit PCI card
288: <li>Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.
289: <li>Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.
290: <li>pcmcia 260MB ATA card.
1.96 aaron 291: <li>9GB fast-wide differential SCSI disk.
292: <li>fast-wide differential SCSI cable.
1.90 deraadt 293: <li>ISAPNP modem.
294: <li>Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.
295: <li>SM81-1 (partial donation from <a href=http://www.memoryx.com>MemoryX</a> (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)
1.91 smurph 296: <li>MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
297: <li>MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
1.92 deraadt 298: <li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual
1.99 deraadt 299: <li>A medium-sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado).
1.101 deraadt 300: <li>MBus ROSS HyperSPARC 125MHz cpu module.
301: <li>AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for
302: Mac development)
303: <li>Sun type4 keyboard.
1.103 jason 304: <li>3Com 3c900b Ethernet card
1.111 deraadt 305: <li>Two alpha machines for Sweden.
306: <li>SMP i386 machines -- for the moment, we have received enough. Thanks. If we need
307: more, we will ask again.
308: <li>Intel FXP with National Semiconductor (DP83840, nsphy) phy Ethernet card
1.112 smurph 309: <li>EISA machine with 2 AHA-2742 Adaptec controllers
310: <li>AHA-2842 VLB Adaptec controller
311: <li>AHA-2902 PCI Adaptec controller
1.121 smurph 312: <li>AHA-2940u2w PCI Adaptec controllers
313: <li>AHA-29160 PCI Adaptec controllers
314: <li>AHA-2740 EIS Adaptec controllers
315: <li>AHA-2940UW PCI Adaptec controllers
316: <li>AHA-2940UW Pro PCI Adaptec controller
1.120 fgsch 317: <li>3Com 3c562B Lan+Modem card
318: <li>3Com 3c589B Lan card
1.124 niklas 319: <li>12GB laptop disk
1.126 deraadt 320: <li>Hypersparc SS10 and SS20 roms (version 2.25).
1.33 deraadt 321: </ul>
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