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<font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
<font color="#e00000">Hardware Wanted</font>
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The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
There are a number of reasons why developers need hardware, and it is important
to first of all realize these reasons:

<ul>
<li>To support a specific device, normally one which is more rare or new.
<li>To be part of their development environment.
<li>Some types of machines may be different in some way
    (i.e. big-endian or unsigned-char) and ensure that developers
    write code more carefully.
<li>That said, space or power may be at a premium for some people.
</ul>

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 is better if developers develop, and skip the bidding process,
since any time saved can be spent on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>

If it is clear which specific developer should be contacted, please do
so directly.  Otherwise contact <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>
who will pass on the message to whichever developers are in need.<p>

Please be very clear as to where you are located!!  For larger items this
can be very important.

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<h3><font color="#e00000">General device requirements</font></h3>

We try to spread these types of devices around our development community.

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<li>Laptops.  These die often enough that our developers need about 2-3
    replacements a year.
<li>Apple Mac powerpc equipment.
<li>HP J6750 machines (J6700 is the second best choice).
<li>Faster &amp; smaller sparc64 machines, for instance 1U rack mount
    machines.  It is important to spread sparc64 around the development
    community, since it is the most strict platform for detecting non-portable
    or buggy code.
<li>Any amd64 or faster i386 hardware which comes available.
<li>We generally do not need older and "very common" ISA/PCI equipment, since
    our developers will generally have gotten their hands on these in the
    past.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">10Gb Ethernet Support</font></h3>

David Gwynne (in Australia), and Claudio Jeker (in Switzerland) are working
on support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet devices. These developers would like the
following hardware to help development:

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  <li>10GbaseSR SFP+ modules for use in 10Gb network cards
  <li>Switches with 10Gb modules for hacking
  <li>Direct Attach (SFP+) and CX4 cabling
  <li>optical cabling with LC connectors (for 10GbaseSR and 10GbaseLR)
  <li>Broadcom, Emulex (ServerEngines) and QLogic 10Gb NICs for driver
      development
</ul>

Contact dlg@openbsd.org, and claudio@openbsd.org.

<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific platform requests by our developers</font></h3>

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<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific devices and equipment needed by our developers</font></h3>

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<li>Sun StorEdge MultiPack-FC desktop array needed in Assen, The Netherlands.
    Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
<li>A laptop with a webcam and a graphics chipset supporting at least OpenGL 4
    (for example Intel HD Graphics 5500 like in X1 carbon 5th gen or X250) is
    needed for WebGL2/WebRender/WebRTC testing in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
    Contact landry@openbsd.org.
<li>A variety pack of shortish (SFP connectors on at least one end) fibers
    wanted in Calgary.
    Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>Nexus compatible RJ45 SFP's ... official Cisco ones that will reliably
    do 100mbit:  Contact deraadt@openbsd.org
<li>A PCIe wifi card with an Atheros AR5008E-3NX chipset (athn(4) driver)
    is wanted in Berlin, Germany, for 802.11n hostap testing.
    Contact stsp@openbsd.org.
<li>A PCIe to USB 2.0+1.1 card supported by ehci(4) and ohci(4) is wanted
    in France or Germany, for USB MP development.
    Contact mpi@openbsd.org.
<li>Hewlett Packard 300GB 6G SAS 10K rpm SFF 2.5-inch Hard Drives for
    mirror operation in Vienna, Austria. Contact martin@openbsd.org.
<li>A (supported!) umb(4) usb stick is needed in Den Haag, The Netherlands.
    Contact florian@openbsd.org.
<li>A laptop is wanted in Cergy, France. Contact benoit@openbsd.org.
<li>USB TRNG harware such as <a href="https://www.araneus.fi/products/alea2/en/">Araneus Alea II</a>
  and <a href="https://www.tindie.com/products/WaywardGeek/infinite-noise-true-random-number-generator/">Infinite
    Noise</a> is wanted in Colorado and the Netherlands. Contact
  abieber@openbsd.org or jasper@openbsd.org.
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