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<h2><font color="#e00000">Hardware wanted</font></h2>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Why do we want your old hardware?</font></h3>
<p>
The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver
support for devices which are rare; other requests are for hardware that
will improve our development environment. In either case, we think we are
being reasonable at asking for these devices.<p>
If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you
search on <a href="http://www.ebay.com">eBay</a> for the devices. If
you do the bidding and then get the device shipped to us, it really
helps us. It's much better if our developers do not need to spend the
time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be
spent on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>
Some regions of the world have a specific want list for that area. If you are
in one of these regions, first check to see what developers close to you are in
need of or want to work on support for.
<ul>
<li><a href="#au">Australia</a>
<li><a href="#n-eur">Northern Europe</a>
<li><a href="#n-sa">South America</a>
</ul>
<h3><font color="#e00000">Additional Notes</font></h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>In each case, please contact
<a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>
before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where
the hardware needs to be shipped to).<p>
<li>As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
for some of these things.<p>
<li>When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service,
because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.<p>
</ul>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">The want list</font></h3>
<ul>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>gigabit switches
<li>Really fast PC motherboard+CPU combinations. To increase our
development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
<li>A small FDDI concentrator.
<li>Fairly large UPS (Calgary).
<li>Hardware RAID solutions.
<li>DLT backup changer.
<li>Brand new U2W or LVD 18GB or larger disk drives.
<li>AMD64 and i386 hardware, especially with multiple processors
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PCI gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>More Gigabit Ethernet PCI cards.
<li>Broadcom BCM570x based Gigabit ethernet
<ul>
<li>3Com 3c996-T gigE NIC
<li>SysKonnect 9D21 gigE NIC
<li>Dell PowerEdge 2550 server with integrated BCM5700
</ul>
<li>Adaptec 7xxx-based PCI SCSI boards
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">USB 2.0 gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>USB 2.0 2.5" Hard Disk Drive
<li>USB 2.0 CD Burner
<li>USB 2.0 Hub
<li>Any non umass USB 2.0 devices
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">USB gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Plantronics DSP-400 Headset (contact jolan@openbsd.org [USA])
<li>USB Audio output devices
<li><em>Prism Based</em> USB 802.11B adapters.
<li>USB temperature sensors
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PC Card (PCMCIA)</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Any CardBus cards, especially Ethernet and SCSI.
<li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM.
<li>A couple Intel EtherExpress 10/100.
<li>ATA Flash cards.
<li>Any CompactFlash+ Ethernet adapters.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Alpha hardware</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Some alpha hardware in North America.
<li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
Multia and axppci33 models.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Fibre Channel gear (contact marco@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>FC switches or hubs (including GBIC's)
<li>FC enclosures (with or without embedded RAID)
<li>FC HBA's
<li>FC HDD's
<li>FC cables copper & fiber optic
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">hp300 gear (contact millert@openbsd.org [USA] or
miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>HP 9000/362 or 9000/382 (preferred)
<li>HP 9000/380 or 9000/385 (preferred)
<li>HP 9000/320 or 9000/350 (preferred)
<li>HP 9000/332
<li>HP 98700 or 98710 Gatorbox frame buffer DIO-I card
<li>HP 98720 Renaissance frame buffer DIO-I card
<li>HP 98730 DaVinci frame buffer DIO-II card
<li>Any unsupported HIL device (audio module, dials, knobs, quadrature...)
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">hpcmips gear (contact jolan@openbsd.org
[USA])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>IBM Workpad z50 w/48MB RAM
<li>High capacity microdrive (>=1GB)
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">HPPA gear (contact mickey@openbsd.org [Europe])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>HP 9000 A500 (rp2450/rp2470), J6000, J6700, J6750, rp3410/rp3440 (preferably dual- or quad-CPU)
<li>8G or somesuch insane amount of RAM for the above-mentioned machines (120MHz ECC SDRAM)
<li>Hitachi 3050RX/200, 3050RX/10C
<li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
<li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
<li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card
(<a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hpib/50488.htm">TAMS 50488</a>)
<li>Any unsupported HIL device (audio module, dials, knobs, quadrature...)
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">i386 gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
</ul>
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<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">ia64 gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Any Itanium 2-based machine, preferrably with an Intel chipset (Europe).
</ul>
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<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">OMRON Luna gear (contact aoyama@openbsd.org
[Japan] and miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Luna-88K or Luna-88K2 systems.
<li>On-board specific I/O processor and related devices (serial ports,
floppy interface...) documentation.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear (contact
miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>MC88110 Second Generation RISC Microprocessor User's Manual (MC88110UM),
in printed or electronic form.
<li>88Open ELF ABI specification.
<li>MVME180 <i>``Angelfire''</i> board.
<li>MVME181 board.
<li>MVME187 board (Canada).
<li>MVME330 Ethernet board.
<li>MVME339 Ethernet documentation.
<li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PowerPC hardware (contact drahn@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Apple G4 tower machine.
<li>Power Mac G5 system.
<li>iBook system.
<li>Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Sparc and Sparc64 gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>SparcStation 20.
<li>UltraSPARC-III based machine (like Blade 1000)
<li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
<li>Sun Ultra 10 memory, preferably 256MB kits (X7032A) or 512MB kits (X7033A).
<li>SparcStation 20 motherboard.
<li>SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
<li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
<li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
<li>More very fast hypersparc modules.
<li>P4 cgfour frame buffer.
<li>VME cgeight frame buffer.
<li>TGX+ frame buffer.
<li>"CompactPCI" chassis for SPARCengine CP1500 (preferably with rear slot & 1 standard PCI; without H.110)
<li>Sun CompactPCI XCP-TRN I/O card
</ul>
<p>
<a name="vax"></a>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">VAX gear (contact hugh@openbsd.org [Canada] and bjc@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
<ul>
<li><b>Any Fast VAX:</b> We do native builds!
<li><b>A VAXstation 4000/90 machine (or just its motherboard)</b> in Europe.
<li><b>QBUS Cards:</b> DELQA, KFQSA, DZ-11, DL-11, CMD CQD-443, CXY-08, CXA-16, etc.
<li><b>DSSI Drives:</b> RF35 or RF36 in BA440 ISE (or bare).
<li><b>SCSI Drives:</b> We need single ended drives 2GB or larger.
<li><b>IDE/ATA Drives:</b> A large IDE drive would be useful.
<li><b>Misc Cables:</b> MMJ serial, BC21M DSSI, short 50 pin amphenol SCSI cable.
<li><b>Memory:</b> 2 MS40-BA kits (8MB VLC), 3 MS44L-BA (8MB MicroVAX 3100)
<li><b>Any unsupported VAX hardware!</b>
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Miscellaneous</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further
SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
<li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External.
Also needed for new SCSI driver development.
<li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
<li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
<li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have. It's a mess,
and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
devices in use!
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Documentation</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>POSIX.1 specifications document (purchased from IETF).
<li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document (i.e. XPG, Unix99, etc)
</ul>
</ul>
<a name=au></a>
<h3><font color="#e00000">Want list for Australia (contact jsg@openbsd.org
or djm@openbsd.org)</font></h3>
<ul>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Sparc64 gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>UltraSPARC machine with PCI.
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Wireless gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>CardBus ADMtek ADM8211 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atw&arch=i386&sektion=4">atw</a>)
<li>Atmel AT76C50x USB wireless device (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu&arch=i386&sektion=4">atu</a>)
<li>PCI to CardBus adapter
<li>PCI to Mini-PCI adapter
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Networking</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Managed 802.1x and VLAN capable switch (preferably HP)
<li>PCI Express to ExpressCard adapter
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Storage</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Three (matched) 18Gb+ Ultra160 SCSI hard drives
<li>SATA drive
</ul>
</ul>
<a name=n-eur></a>
<h3><font color="#e00000">Want list for Northern Europe (contact niklas@openbsd.org [Sweden])</font></h3>
<ul>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">SMP hardware</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
<li>Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
<li>SMP-capable alpha computers.
<li>SMP-capable sparc computers.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Storage</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Large (20-30 GB) laptop IDE disks.
<li>Wide, Ultra-wide and Ultra2, & Ultra160 LVD SCSI disks.
<li>Large SCSI tape device (>30GB uncompressed), preferably with a
changer.
<li>UW/LVD SCSI cables.
<li>Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
<li>External disk enclosures, preferrably rack-mountable.
Hot-swap functionality is yet a bonus.
<li>Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Network</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>1000baseSX GBIC
<li>HP 4000M Gigabit ethernet modules, both 1000baseSX and copper
is interesting.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Miscellaneous</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>A 19" rack in the vicinity of Gothenburg.
<li>Rack-mountable cases accepting regular AT or ATX motherboards.
<li>A small UPS.
<li>Electronic console switch.
</ul>
<p>
</ul>
<a name=n-sa></a>
<h3><font color="#e00000">Want list for South America (contact fgsch@openbsd.org [Argentina] or pedro@openbsd.org [Brazil])</font></h3>
<ul>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">VAX gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Any Fast VAX.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Sparc gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>SS20 VSIMM.
<li>Floppy drive.
<li>Any supported Sparc hardware.
<li>A Sun-compatible SCSI CD-Rom drive for an Ultra 1.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">PCMCIA</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Any xe(4) 10/100 card.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color="#0000e0">Infrastructure</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>A 100Mbit hub.
<li>Any x86 mobo with CPU.
<li>Any non-i386 gear (Brazil).
</ul>
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