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Add a request for AR7010 devices which I will need to continue working
on USB athn(4) open source firmware support.

These devices come in several variants, most of which are hard to track down,
and some of which are relatively expensive.
See https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros_AR7010 for product names.

I have already received an offer for financial reimbursement, but my
biggest problem is that hunting these devices down takes time and effort.

Perhaps somebody has such a device somewhere gathering dust?

I will need at least a 5GHz (11a/b/g/n) variant and a 2GHz (11b/g/n) variant.
And having a device with accessible UART would be nice.

Some people have very vocally complained about closed wifi firmware on
our mailing lists. Now this is your chance to do something productive
about that issue and give back to the community.

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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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<p>

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.

<ul>
<li>Laptops.  These die often enough that as a group our needier
    developers need help replacing about 2-3 per 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:

<ul>
  <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 variety pack of shortish (SFP connectors on at least one end) fibers
    wanted in Calgary.
    Contact deraadt@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>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.
<li>USB wifi devices based on <a href="https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros_AR7010">AR7010</a> chips (see link for specific product names), with and without support for 5GHz channels, are needed in Berlin, Germany, in order to improve and maintain <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/athn">athn(4)</a> driver support for <a href="https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware">open source firmware</a> which can run on such devices. Contact stsp@openbsd.org.
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