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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
(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>
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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>deraadt@openbsd.org for any general offers or questions.
</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><em>Narrow SCSI</em> disk drives of 2GB or more, 3.5" size.
(Narrow SCSI means 50pin).<br>
Many developers are running out of these drives, which are needed
to continue supporting older hardware.<br>
<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 & smaller sparc64 machines, for instance 1U rack mount machines
<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.
<li>A variety of laptops for our ACPI developers working on suspend.
</ul>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Networking equipment</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>A Cisco 7301 with >=1GB ram and PA-MC-2T(1) T1 adaptor, or
Cisco 7201 with >=1GB ram and PA-MCX-2TE1 T1 adaptor, or something else like that!
<li>A 1U 10-Gigabit switch (such as Procurve 6600-24XG or 6410cl-6XG)
</ul>
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
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<h3><font color="#e00000">10Gb Ethernet Support</font></h3>
David Gwynne (in Australia), Mike Belopuhov (in Germany), 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, mikeb@openbsd.org, and claudio@openbsd.org.
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific platform requests by our developers</font></h3>
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<li>HP J6700/J6750 2U machines. Note these are fairly cheap on Ebay
at the moment.
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
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<li><i>i386:</i>
<ul>
<li>A <a href="http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LE-565.HTM">Commmell LE-565</a>
motherboard is needed in Australia.
Contact djm@openbsd.org.
<li>Four Dell R610 (or similar) 2.5" SAS drive sleds.
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>Two DRAC (remote access cards) for Dell 1750 servers.
Contact espie@openbsd.org.
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<li><i>loongson:</i>
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<li>A Loongson 3A machine needed in Vilnius, Lithuania or Zurich, Switzerland
or Mountain View, CA, USA.
Contact martynas@openbsd.org.
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<li>An Xserve G4 (or G5 w/ PATA disks) is needed in France for ports testing and development.
Contact landry@openbsd.org.
<li>A G4 Mac mini or a PowerMac G5 is needed in France for ports testing and development.
Contact benoit@openbsd.org
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<li>A <a href="http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=12&pid=24&set_language=english">Thecus N1200</a>
is needed in Australia.
Contact djm@openbsd.org.
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<ul>
<li>An SBus-based UltraSPARC workstation, preferably a Sun
Ultra 2, needed in Assen, The Netherlands.
Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
</ul>
<li><i>vax:</i>
<ul>
<li>A DWCTX-BX TURBOchannel adapter for VAXstation 4000/60 and VAXstation 4000/{90,96}
is needed in France.
Contact miod@openbsd.org.
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<li><i>Miscellaneous:</i>
<ul>
<li>Itanium 1U or 2U machines wanted in various places.
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>Low profile machine with azalia(4) in France.
Contact ratchov@openbsd.org.
</ul>
</ul>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific cards needed by our developers</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>An Intel IOP348 based SAS controller (such as the Supermicro AOC-USAS-S4i)
to help in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sli&sektion=4">sli(4)</a>
development. Needed in Brisbane, Australia.
Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
<li>A LSISAS2008 based SAS controller to help in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a> development.
Needed in Brisbane, Australia.
Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
<li>A Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe card.
Needed in Brisbane, Australia.
Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
<li>A PCIe to SD/MMC Card reader controller such as the JMicron JMB38X family.
Needed in Brisbane, Australia.
Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
<li>QLogic ISP10160 SCSI adapter needed in Assen, the Netherlands.
Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
<li>Some kind of Magma 1 (or 3) slot Expresscard->PCIe expansion system, for
improving our PCI drivers.
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>Sun XVR-300 framebuffer needed in Assen, the Netherlands. Contact
kettenis@openbsd.org.
<li>CardBus serial adapter to unify PCI/CardBus serial code.
Needed in Melbourne, Australia. Contact jsg@openbsd.org.
<li>Any VIA Rhine (VT610x) 10/100 PCI ethernet cards.
Contact dtucker@openbsd.org.
</ul>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific devices and equipment needed by our developers</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>Any MPLS capable equipment for interoperability testing. E.g. Cisco 1841.
Contact michele@openbsd.org and claudio@openbsd.org.
<li>Bluetooth devices, especially phones, keyboards, mice, and headsets.
Contact xsa@openbsd.org.
<li>A CF- and SDIO-attached GPS receiver and device that provide exact time
information for timedelta sensor related development radio clock in
Sunnyvale, USA.
Contact ckuethe@openbsd.org.
<li>A <a href="http://www.bwi.com/prod/572922">MiniPCI GPS Receiver</a>
for timedelta sensor related development in Sunnyvale, USA.
The appropriate antenna and MiniPCI-to-PCI adapters would also be useful.
Contact ckuethe@openbsd.org.
<li>Serial attached GPS receivers with pulse-per-second outputs and weather-
resistant enclosures in Sunnyvale, USA.
Requested models include Magellan AC12, NovAtel SuperStarII Smart Antenna,
Motorola OnCore UT+, Motorola/iLotus/Synergy M12M (Timing), SigNav TM3-01,
NavSync CW25-TIM.
Contact ckuethe@openbsd.org.
<li>CDMA clock (Praecis Ct or similar) in Sunnyvale, USA.
Contact ckuethe@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 France.
Contact miod@openbsd.org, short-term loan acceptable.
<li>TI TUSB3140 serial USB adapter in Calgary.
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>A SATA drive around 250Gb for a ProLiant DL145 G2 needed in Hannover, Germany.
Contact reyk@openbsd.org.
<li>Narrow SCSI (50pin) disk drive 4GB or more, 3.5" size
is needed near New York City, USA.
Contact kurt@openbsd.org.
<li>Sun StorEdge MultiPack-FC desktop array needed in Assen, The Netherlands.
Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
<li>A variety pack of shortish (SPF connectors on at least one end) fibers
wanted in Calgary.
Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>Interesting bit of <a href="http://www.openpandora.org/">
portable ARM hardware</a> wanted in Oslo, Norway.
Contact blambert@openbsd.org
<li>A 1.8" IDE hard disk suitable to replace the dead hardisk of a
thinkpad x40 (ex, KingSpec 1.8" PATA/IDE SSD) is needed
in Grenoble, France.
Contact ratchov@openbsd.org
<li>Any kind of DCC (Digital Command Control) capable controller, used to
control digital model railroads. Actually needed to test misc/srcpd
with real hardware. Parts needed in Brandenburg, Germany.
Contact sebastia@openbsd.org
<li>Medium size (13-14 inch screen) laptop or notebook required for development
while commuting.
Contact sebastia@openbsd.org, location Brandenburg, Germany
<li>A USB drive that supports "USB Attached SCSI" wanted in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Contact matthew@openbsd.org.
<li>Cisco ASA 5505 with a license for IPsec tunnels is needed in Aachen,
Germany. Any other IPsec and/or IKEv2 capable equipment is welcomed too.
Contact mikeb@openbsd.org.
<li><a href="http://papilio.cc/index.php?n=Papilio.Buy">Papilio One board</a>
for porting and testing development/programming software in ports,
needed in Gorinchem, the Netherlands.
Contact jasper@openbsd.org.
<li>Medium size (13-14 inch screen) laptop or notebook required for development
while commuting.
Contact lum@openbsd.org, location London, UK.
<li>Laptops or other devices containing card readers of the Realtek RTS card
reader product family, which are not yet supported by the rtsx(4) driver,
are welcome in Berlin, Germany.
The PCI vendor ID of these card readers is 0x10ec. Known PCI product IDs
of unsupported card readers are 0x5229 and 0x5289.
Contact stsp@openbsd.org.
<li>A laptop needed for hacking while commuting, preferably Asus Zenbook.
In Vilnius, Lithuania or Zurich, Switzerland or Mountain View, CA, USA.
Contact martynas@openbsd.org.
<li>Two sets of rackmount rails compatible with a Sun Fire T1000 are needed
in the Netherlands.
Contact jasper@openbsd.org or 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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