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<h2><font color="#e00000">Hardware wanted</font></h2>
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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
(ie. 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>
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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">Specific developers to contact for various reasons</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>miod@openbsd.org and martin@openbsd.org for "older hardware" in Europe.
<li>wvdputte@openbsd.org for shipping assistance inside Europe.
<li>deraadt@openbsd.org for any general offers or questions.
<li>jsg@openbsd.org for any new wireless equipment.
<li>brad@openbsd.org for any new/rare ethernet equipment.
</ul>
If you do not get a response from these developers, please consider
contacting another developer.
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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>A few 1U 1Gbit switches with many ports
<li>A 10Gbit switch so we can support 10Gbit one day
<li>Laptops. These die often enough that our developers need about 2-3
replacements a year.
<li>Apple Mac powerpc equipment.
<li>Faster & smaller sparc64 machines, for instance 1U rack mount machines
<li>Any amd64 or faster i386 hardware which comes available
<li>Narrow SCSI disk drives of 2GB or more.
<li>Other devices
<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>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific devices needed by specific developers</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>A PCI bus analyser would be really useful for working on undocumented hardware,
required in Melbourne.
Contact jsg@openbsd.org
<li>Powermac G5 with PCI Express for driver development/macppc testing
in Melbourne.
Contact jsg@openbsd.org
<li>UltraSPARC III machine with PCI Express for driver development/sparc64
testing in Melbourne.
Contact jsg@openbsd.org
<li>CompactFlash GPRS card such as the Audiovox RTM-8000D needed in Madison, WI.
Contact jolan@openbsd.org
<li>umodem(4) based EVDO device needed in Madison, WI.
Contact jolan@openbsd.org
<li>Elan Digital Systems U132 USB -> Cardbus Adapter needed in Madison, WI.
Contact jolan@openbsd.org
<li>A fast, supported hppa workstation (preferable an HP C360) needed in
the Netherlands.
Contact kettenis@openbsd.org
<li>An amd64 machine needed for RAID development in Brisbane, Australia.
Preferably a Sun x4100 or x4200.
Contact dlg@openbsd.org
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ciss&sektion=4">ciss(4)</a>
and
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
RAID cards for bio and bioctl development needed in Austin, Texas, USA.
Contact marco@openbsd.org
<li>Fast machine with PCIe bus for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4">mfi(4)</a> development.
Contact marco@openbsd.org
<li>DG AViiON hardware needed in France.
Contact miod@openbsd.org
<li>Several developers need SDIO (any function) and SD/MMC memory cards.
Contact uwe@openbsd.org
<li>A CF- and SDIO-attached GPS receiver and devices that provide exact time
information for timedelta sensor related development radio clock in Basel,
Switzerland.
Contact mbalmer@openbsd.org.
<li>A very fast i386 machine (3GHz and up) for ports development and
ports testing needed in Hamburg, Germany.
Contact bernd@openbsd.org
<li>A Vodafone mobile connect 'super 3G' USB modem, an Option GT 3G+ and
newer Novatel Wireless HSDPA/UMTS cards (Merlin U730 and U870) needed
for driver development in Oldenburg, Germany.
Contact fkr@openbsd.org.
<li>A UPS is needed for multi-architecture infrastructure in Central USA.
Contact drahn@openbsd.org
<li>73GB+ scsi drives needed in Windsor, Canada.
Contact gwk@openbsd.org
<li>USB/RS-232 adapter based on Cypress 7C63743 and/or 7C64013 for hacking on
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ucycom&sektion=4">ucycom(4)</a> needed in Washington DC area.
Contact jason@openbsd.org
<li>A Sun Cassini (GigaSwift) NIC needed in the Netherlands.
Contact kettenis@openbsd.org
<li>SCSI tape changers (libraries) for hacking on
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ch&sektion=4">
ch(4),</a>
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=st&sektion=4">
st(4)</a>
and related utilities needed in Alberta, Canada.
Contact beck@openbsd.org.
<li>PATA/SATA drives needed for ATA development in Moscow, Russia
or really anywhere else in Western Europe.
Contact grange@openbsd.org
<li>A fast Alpha machine (preferably a AlphaServer DS20L) needed in Vienna,
Austria.
Contact martin@openbsd.org
<li>A switch with at least one 1000baseSX fiber port needed in the Netherlands.
Contact kettenis@openbsd.org
<li>An Intel PRO/10GbE CX4 Server Adapter (PXLA8591CX4) neeed in Calgary, Canada.
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org
<li>An Intel PRO/10GbE SR Server Adapter (PXLA8591SR) needed in Toronto, Canada.
Contact brad@openbsd.org
<li>Two 1000baseSX SFP's needed in Toronto, Canada.
Contact brad@openbsd.org
<li>Three Seagate SATA-II 320GB (ST3320620AS) drives needed in Toronto, Canada.
Contact brad@openbsd.org
<li>An LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 300-4XLP RAID adapter needed in Toronto, Canada.
Contact brad@openbsd.org
<li>A fast macppc machine (e.g. a G4) for macppc work in Winsdor, Canada.
Contact gwk@openbsd.org
<li>A battery for an IBM Thinkpad X31 is needed in Hamburg, Germany.
Contact bernd@openbsd.org
<li>An LCD monitor, for example 20" (1600x1050) with DVI connector needed
in Heemstede, the Netherlands.
Contact otto@openbsd.org
<li>Any Intel
<a href="http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/Q965_Q963/index.htm">Q965</a>
or <a href=http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/G965/index.htm>G965</a>
chipset-based (e.g. with integrated graphics) machine, needed for hacking on
X hardware acceleration support in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Contact dim@openbsd.org
<li>Marvell based SDIO Wireless cards and Marvell based USB adaptors, for
example the Xbox360 wireless adaptor needed in Switzerland.
Contact claudio@openbsd.org or mglocker@openbsd.org
<li>Two UltraSPARC-II 450MHz CPUs and additional RAM for an Enterprise 420R
needed in Zurich, Switzerland.
Contact claudio@openbsd.org
<li>Any device (monitor or projector) able to output a 1728x2304 image,
sync on green, with either a 13W3 or an HD15 connector needed in Toulouse,
France.
Contact miod@openbsd.org, short-term loan acceptable.
<li>An amd64 with more than 4 GB RAM for hacking on large memory support
in i386 and amd64, needed in London, UK.
Contact tom@openbsd.org.
<li>An NetXen NX2031 10G NIC (like the HP NC510C/F) for hacking on a driver,
needed in Hannover, Germany.
Contact reyk@openbsd.org.
<li>EVC to VGA adaptors for hppa development needed in Vienna, Austria.
Contact martin@openbsd.org.
<li>Any speech synthesizer devices such as DECTalk, DoubleTalk or Dolphin Apollo.
Contact deanna@openbsd.org.
<li>Sony VAIO needed from later than 2004 with lots of buttons and cardbus.
Contact marco@openbsd.org.
<li>An UltraSPARC-III 750MHz CPU module for a Blade 1000 needed in
Assen, The Netherlands.
Contact kettenis@openbsd.org
<li>A Soekris board and case, and a power supply needed in Brussels, Belgium.
Contact xsa@openbsd.org.
<li>SCSI hard drives (1" height) with SCA (80 pins) connector of at least
9.1GB needed in the Netherlands. Contact otto@openbsd.org.
</ul>
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<h2><font color="#e00000">Software wanted</font></h2>
<ul>
<li>Licenses for recent Maple for Linux, or Mathematica, or similar
software. I no longer use these for regular work, but I would be willing
to try and make sure it can be installed seamlessly through the ports
tree.
Contact espie@openbsd.org
</ul>
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