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1.228 jufi 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">Hardware wanted</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 20:
1.228 jufi 21: <h3><font color="#e00000">Why do we want your old hardware?</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 22: <p>
23: The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
24: Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver
25: support for devices which are rare; other requests are for hardware that
26: will improve our development environment. In either case, we think we are
1.78 deraadt 27: being reasonable at asking for these devices.<p>
1.1 deraadt 28:
1.78 deraadt 29: If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you
1.228 jufi 30: search on <a href="http://www.ebay.com">eBay</a> for the devices. If
1.78 deraadt 31: you do the bidding and then get the device shipped to us, it really
32: helps us. It's much better if our developers do not need to spend the
33: time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be
1.118 deraadt 34: spent on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>
1.109 niklas 35:
1.258 david 36: Some regions of the world have a specific want list for that area. If you are
37: in one of these regions, first check to see what developers close to you are in
38: need of or want to work on support for.
39:
40: <ul>
1.313 jsg 41: <li><a href="#au">Australia</a>
1.258 david 42: <li><a href="#n-eur">Northern Europe</a>
43: <li><a href="#n-sa">South America</a>
44: </ul>
1.22 deraadt 45:
1.228 jufi 46: <h3><font color="#e00000">Additional Notes</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 47: <p>
1.228 jufi 48: <ul>
1.90 deraadt 49: <li>In each case, please contact
1.228 jufi 50: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>
1.2 mickey 51: before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where
1.90 deraadt 52: the hardware needs to be shipped to).<p>
53: <li>As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
54: for some of these things.<p>
55: <li>When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service,
56: because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.<p>
1.228 jufi 57: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 58:
1.90 deraadt 59: <hr>
1.22 deraadt 60:
1.228 jufi 61: <h3><font color="#e00000">The want list</font></h3>
62: <ul>
1.249 miod 63: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>
1.51 deraadt 64: <ul>
1.277 deraadt 65: <li>gigabit switches
1.309 david 66: <li>Really fast PC motherboard+CPU combinations. To increase our
1.249 miod 67: development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
68: need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
69: <li>A small FDDI concentrator.
1.277 deraadt 70: <li>Fairly large UPS (Calgary).
1.272 deraadt 71: <li>Hardware RAID solutions.
1.249 miod 72: <li>DLT backup changer.
1.277 deraadt 73: <li>Brand new U2W or LVD 18GB or larger disk drives.
74: <li>AMD64 and i386 hardware, especially with multiple processors
1.40 deraadt 75: </ul>
76: <p>
1.228 jufi 77: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PCI gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 78: <ul>
1.150 deraadt 79: <li>More Gigabit Ethernet PCI cards.
1.182 nate 80: <li>Broadcom BCM570x based Gigabit ethernet
1.218 mickey 81: <ul>
82: <li>3Com 3c996-T gigE NIC
83: <li>SysKonnect 9D21 gigE NIC
84: <li>Dell PowerEdge 2550 server with integrated BCM5700
85: </ul>
1.272 deraadt 86: <li>Adaptec 7xxx-based PCI SCSI boards
1.40 deraadt 87: </ul>
88: <p>
1.228 jufi 89: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">USB 2.0 gear</font></h4>
1.189 nate 90: <ul>
1.225 nate 91: <li>USB 2.0 2.5" Hard Disk Drive
92: <li>USB 2.0 CD Burner
1.189 nate 93: <li>USB 2.0 Hub
1.225 nate 94: <li>Any non umass USB 2.0 devices
1.189 nate 95: </ul>
96: <p>
1.228 jufi 97: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">USB gear</font></h4>
1.113 aaron 98: <ul>
1.312 jolan 99: <li>Plantronics DSP-400 Headset (contact jolan@openbsd.org [USA])
1.288 deraadt 100: <li>USB Audio output devices
1.267 drahn 101: <li><em>Prism Based</em> USB 802.11B adapters.
1.313 jsg 102: <li>USB temperature sensors
1.113 aaron 103: </ul>
104: <p>
1.228 jufi 105: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PC Card (PCMCIA)</font></h4>
1.119 aaron 106: <ul>
107: <li>Any CardBus cards, especially Ethernet and SCSI.
1.137 fgsch 108: <li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM.
109: <li>A couple Intel EtherExpress 10/100.
1.138 aaron 110: <li>ATA Flash cards.
1.143 aaron 111: <li>Any CompactFlash+ Ethernet adapters.
1.119 aaron 112: </ul>
1.252 grange 113: <p>
1.249 miod 114: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Alpha hardware</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 115: <ul>
1.249 miod 116: <li>Some alpha hardware in North America.
117: <li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
118: Multia and axppci33 models.
1.40 deraadt 119: </ul>
1.249 miod 120: <p>
1.290 marco 121: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Fibre Channel gear (contact marco@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
122: <ul>
123: <li>FC switches or hubs (including GBIC's)
124: <li>FC enclosures (with or without embedded RAID)
125: <li>FC HBA's
126: <li>FC HDD's
1.318 jolan 127: <li>FC cables copper & fiber optic
1.290 marco 128: </ul>
129: <p>
1.249 miod 130: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">hp300 gear (contact millert@openbsd.org [USA] or
131: miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
132: <ul>
133: <li>HP 9000/362 or 9000/382 (preferred)
134: <li>HP 9000/380 or 9000/385 (preferred)
135: <li>HP 9000/320 or 9000/350 (preferred)
136: <li>HP 9000/332
137: <li>HP 98700 or 98710 Gatorbox frame buffer DIO-I card
138: <li>HP 98720 Renaissance frame buffer DIO-I card
139: <li>HP 98730 DaVinci frame buffer DIO-II card
1.253 miod 140: <li>Any unsupported HIL device (audio module, dials, knobs, quadrature...)
1.249 miod 141: </ul>
1.5 espie 142: <p>
1.318 jolan 143: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">hpcmips gear (contact jolan@openbsd.org
144: [USA])</font></h4>
145: <ul>
146: <li>IBM Workpad z50 w/48MB RAM
147: <li>High capacity microdrive (>=1GB)
148: </ul>
149: <p>
1.321 mickey 150: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">HPPA gear (contact mickey@openbsd.org [Europe])</font></h4>
1.123 deraadt 151:
1.40 deraadt 152: <ul>
1.321 mickey 153: <li>HP 9000 A500 (rp2450/rp2470), J6000, J6700, J6750, rp3410/rp3440 (preferably dual- or quad-CPU)
1.305 mickey 154: <li>8G or somesuch insane amount of RAM for the above-mentioned machines (120MHz ECC SDRAM)
1.245 mickey 155: <li>Hitachi 3050RX/200, 3050RX/10C
1.52 mickey 156: <li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
157: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
1.208 mickey 158: <li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card
159: (<a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hpib/50488.htm">TAMS 50488</a>)
1.301 miod 160: <li>Any unsupported HIL device (audio module, dials, knobs, quadrature...)
1.40 deraadt 161: </ul>
162: <p>
1.249 miod 163: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">i386 gear</font></h4>
164: <ul>
165: <li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
166: </ul>
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1.249 miod 168: <p>
1.280 miod 169: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">ia64 gear</font></h4>
170: <ul>
171: <li>Any Itanium 2-based machine, preferrably with an Intel chipset (Europe).
172: </ul>
1.282 miod 173: -->
174: <p>
175: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">OMRON Luna gear (contact aoyama@openbsd.org
176: [Japan] and miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
177: <ul>
178: <li>Luna-88K or Luna-88K2 systems.
179: <li>On-board specific I/O processor and related devices (serial ports,
180: floppy interface...) documentation.
181: </ul>
1.280 miod 182: <p>
1.228 jufi 183: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear (contact
1.289 miod 184: miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
1.50 smurph 185: <ul>
1.273 miod 186: <li>MC88110 Second Generation RISC Microprocessor User's Manual (MC88110UM),
1.289 miod 187: in printed or electronic form.
188: <li>88Open ELF ABI specification.
189: <li>MVME180 <i>``Angelfire''</i> board.
190: <li>MVME181 board.
1.273 miod 191: <li>MVME187 board (Canada).
1.289 miod 192: <li>MVME330 Ethernet board.
1.203 miod 193: <li>MVME339 Ethernet documentation.
1.218 mickey 194: <li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
1.50 smurph 195: </ul>
196: <p>
1.228 jufi 197: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PowerPC hardware (contact drahn@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
1.97 rahnds 198: <ul>
1.259 jolan 199: <li>Apple G4 tower machine.
200: <li>Power Mac G5 system.
1.97 rahnds 201: <li>iBook system.
202: <li>Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
203: </ul>
204: <p>
1.249 miod 205: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Sparc and Sparc64 gear</font></h4>
206: <ul>
1.271 miod 207: <li>SparcStation 20.
1.249 miod 208: <li>UltraSPARC-III based machine (like Blade 1000)
209: <li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
1.279 brad 210: <li>Sun Ultra 10 memory, preferably 256MB kits (X7032A) or 512MB kits (X7033A).
1.271 miod 211: <li>SparcStation 20 motherboard.
1.249 miod 212: <li>SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
213: <li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
214: <li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
215: <li>More very fast hypersparc modules.
216: <li>P4 cgfour frame buffer.
217: <li>VME cgeight frame buffer.
218: <li>TGX+ frame buffer.
219: <li>"CompactPCI" chassis for SPARCengine CP1500 (preferably with rear slot & 1 standard PCI; without H.110)
220: <li>Sun CompactPCI XCP-TRN I/O card
1.122 miod 221: </ul>
222: <p>
1.149 hugh 223: <a name="vax"></a>
1.228 jufi 224: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">VAX gear (contact hugh@openbsd.org [Canada] and bjc@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
1.187 hugh 225:
1.135 hugh 226: <ul>
1.211 hugh 227: <li><b>Any Fast VAX:</b> We do native builds!
1.254 miod 228: <li><b>A VAXstation 4000/90 machine (or just its motherboard)</b> in Europe.
1.247 hugh 229: <li><b>QBUS Cards:</b> DELQA, KFQSA, DZ-11, DL-11, CMD CQD-443, CXY-08, CXA-16, etc.
1.211 hugh 230: <li><b>DSSI Drives:</b> RF35 or RF36 in BA440 ISE (or bare).
1.247 hugh 231: <li><b>SCSI Drives:</b> We need single ended drives 2GB or larger.
232: <li><b>IDE/ATA Drives:</b> A large IDE drive would be useful.
233: <li><b>Misc Cables:</b> MMJ serial, BC21M DSSI, short 50 pin amphenol SCSI cable.
234: <li><b>Memory:</b> 2 MS40-BA kits (8MB VLC), 3 MS44L-BA (8MB MicroVAX 3100)
1.211 hugh 235: <li><b>Any unsupported VAX hardware!</b>
1.135 hugh 236: </ul>
237: <p>
1.228 jufi 238: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Miscellaneous</font></h4>
1.46 jason 239: <ul>
1.218 mickey 240: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further
1.106 smurph 241: SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
242: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External.
1.162 pvalchev 243: Also needed for new SCSI driver development.
1.46 jason 244: <li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
1.70 deraadt 245: <li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
1.73 deraadt 246: <li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have. It's a mess,
247: and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
248: devices in use!
1.46 jason 249: </ul>
1.47 jason 250: <p>
1.228 jufi 251: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Documentation</font></h4>
1.90 deraadt 252: <ul>
1.150 deraadt 253: <li>POSIX.1 specifications document (purchased from IETF).
1.158 jufi 254: <li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document (i.e. XPG, Unix99, etc)
1.90 deraadt 255: </ul>
1.228 jufi 256: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 257:
1.313 jsg 258: <a name=au></a>
1.320 djm 259: <h3><font color="#e00000">Want list for Australia (contact jsg@openbsd.org
260: or djm@openbsd.org)</font></h3>
1.313 jsg 261: <ul>
262: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Sparc64 gear</font></h4>
263: <ul>
264: <li>UltraSPARC machine with PCI.
265: </ul>
266: </ul>
267: <ul>
268: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Wireless gear</font></h4>
269: <ul>
270: <li>CardBus ADMtek ADM8211 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atw&arch=i386&sektion=4">atw</a>)
271: <li>Atmel AT76C50x USB wireless device (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu&arch=i386&sektion=4">atu</a>)
1.323 jsg 272: <li>PCI to CardBus adapter
273: <li>PCI to Mini-PCI adapter
274: </ul>
275: </ul>
276: <ul>
277: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Networking</font></h4>
278: <ul>
279: <li>Managed 802.1x and VLAN capable switch (preferably HP)
280: <li>PCI Express to ExpressCard adapter
1.313 jsg 281: </ul>
282: </ul>
1.320 djm 283: <ul>
284: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Storage</font></h4>
285: <ul>
286: <li>Three (matched) 18Gb+ Ultra160 SCSI hard drives
1.323 jsg 287: <li>SATA drive
1.320 djm 288: </ul>
289: </ul>
1.313 jsg 290:
1.109 niklas 291: <a name=n-eur></a>
1.228 jufi 292: <h3><font color="#e00000">Want list for Northern Europe (contact niklas@openbsd.org [Sweden])</font></h3>
293: <ul>
294: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">SMP hardware</font></h4>
1.109 niklas 295: <ul>
296: <li>SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
297: <li>Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
298: <li>SMP-capable alpha computers.
1.180 niklas 299: <li>SMP-capable sparc computers.
1.109 niklas 300: </ul>
301: <p>
1.228 jufi 302: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Storage</font></h4>
1.109 niklas 303: <ul>
1.180 niklas 304: <li>Large (20-30 GB) laptop IDE disks.
1.121 smurph 305: <li>Wide, Ultra-wide and Ultra2, & Ultra160 LVD SCSI disks.
1.180 niklas 306: <li>Large SCSI tape device (>30GB uncompressed), preferably with a
1.218 mickey 307: changer.
1.180 niklas 308: <li>UW/LVD SCSI cables.
1.109 niklas 309: <li>Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
1.180 niklas 310: <li>External disk enclosures, preferrably rack-mountable.
1.218 mickey 311: Hot-swap functionality is yet a bonus.
1.117 espie 312: <li>Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.
1.109 niklas 313: </ul>
314: <p>
1.228 jufi 315: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Network</font></h4>
1.116 niklas 316: <ul>
1.235 nate 317: <li>1000baseSX GBIC
1.180 niklas 318: <li>HP 4000M Gigabit ethernet modules, both 1000baseSX and copper
319: is interesting.
1.116 niklas 320: </ul>
1.109 niklas 321: <p>
1.228 jufi 322: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Miscellaneous</font></h4>
1.167 niklas 323: <ul>
324: <li>A 19" rack in the vicinity of Gothenburg.
1.180 niklas 325: <li>Rack-mountable cases accepting regular AT or ATX motherboards.
326: <li>A small UPS.
327: <li>Electronic console switch.
1.167 niklas 328: </ul>
329: <p>
1.228 jufi 330: </ul>
1.109 niklas 331:
1.160 fgsch 332: <a name=n-sa></a>
1.295 pedro 333: <h3><font color="#e00000">Want list for South America (contact fgsch@openbsd.org [Argentina] or pedro@openbsd.org [Brazil])</font></h3>
1.228 jufi 334: <ul>
335: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">VAX gear</font></h4>
1.213 fgsch 336: <ul>
337: <li>Any Fast VAX.
338: </ul>
339: <p>
1.228 jufi 340: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Sparc gear</font></h4>
1.159 fgsch 341: <ul>
1.213 fgsch 342: <li>SS20 VSIMM.
343: <li>Floppy drive.
344: <li>Any supported Sparc hardware.
1.238 fgsch 345: <li>A Sun-compatible SCSI CD-Rom drive for an Ultra 1.
1.159 fgsch 346: </ul>
347: <p>
1.228 jufi 348: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PCMCIA</font></h4>
1.160 fgsch 349: <ul>
1.213 fgsch 350: <li>Any xe(4) 10/100 card.
1.160 fgsch 351: </ul>
352: <p>
1.228 jufi 353: <li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Infrastructure</font></h4>
1.159 fgsch 354: <ul>
1.213 fgsch 355: <li>A 100Mbit hub.
1.309 david 356: <li>Any x86 mobo with CPU.
1.295 pedro 357: <li>Any non-i386 gear (Brazil).
1.159 fgsch 358: </ul>
359: <p>
1.228 jufi 360: </ul>
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