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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 &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>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Networking equipment</font></h3>
<ul>
  <li>A 1U 10-Gigabit switch (or two).
</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>
<ul>
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<li><i>aviion:</i>
<ul>
<li>A working 400, 4000 or 4300 motherboard, preferrably with two processors.
    Contact miod@openbsd.org.
</ul>
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<li><i>hppa64:</i>
<ul>
<li>HP J6700/J6750 2U machines.  Note these are fairly cheap on Ebay
    at the moment.
    Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
</ul>
<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.
</ul>
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<li><i>macppc:</i>
<ul>
<li>A G4 Mac mini or a PowerMac G5 is needed in France for ports testing and development.
    Contact benoit@openbsd.org
<li>A fast Mac mini G4 for GNAT (Ada) support on powerpc is needed in
    Germany. They go for about EUR 55 on fleabay. Contact tobiasu@openbsd.org
</ul>
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<li><i>octeon:</i>
<ul>
<li>Any unsupported OCTEON hardware, such as
  the D-Link <a href="http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/business-solutions/security/services-routers/dsr-500n-wireless-n-unified-services-router">DSR-500(N)</a>,
  <a href="http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/business-solutions/security/services-routers/dsr-1000n-wireless-n-dual-band-unified-service-router">DSR-1000(N)</a>
  or Lanner <a href="http://www.lannerinc.com/network_processor_platforms/MR-320">MR-320</a>,
  <a href="http://www.lannerinc.com/network_processor_platforms/MR-330">MR-330</a>,
  <a href="http://www.lannerinc.com/network_processor_platforms/MR-730">MR-730</a>,
  or Portwell <a href="http://www.portwell.com/products/detail.asp?CUSTCHAR1=KILIN-6005">KILIN-6005</a>.
  are needed for testing and development in Gorinchem, The Netherlands.
  Contact jasper@openbsd.org.
</ul>
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<li><i>socppc:</i>
<ul>
<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.
</ul>
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<li><i>sparc:</i>
<ul>
<li>A removable hard drive for SPARCbook (Tadpole S3GX), preferably 2GB or bigger,
    needed in Paris, France.
    Contact ajacoutot@openbsd.org.
</ul>
<li><i>sparc64:</i>
<ul>
<li>Disk drive caddies for the T5120/5220/5140/5240-series machines
    (with disks in them, or empty).
    Contact deraadt@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.
</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&amp;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&amp;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-&gt;PCIe expansion system, for
    improving our PCI drivers.
    Contact deraadt@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 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>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>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>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 or a Juniper SSG5 is
    needed in Aachen, Germany.  Any other IPsec and/or IKEv2 capable
    equipment is welcomed too.  Contact mikeb@openbsd.org.
<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 0x5289, 0x5227, 0x5249, and 0x5287.
    Short-term loan acceptable.  Contact stsp@openbsd.org.
<li>Laptops or other devices containing Elantech touchpads with hardware
    versions 1, 2, and 4 are wanted in Berlin, Germany. Short-term loan
    acceptable. Contact stsp@openbsd.org.
<li>A fast and small laptop to replace my aging thinkpad x40 (x220 or x230
    would be perfect) to work on ASR, smtpd and more.
    Money to help buy one would be great too.
    Contact eric@openbsd.org
<li>A rack mountable UltraSPARC T1, T2 or T2+ machine or a Sun Fire T1000
    motherboard.  Contact otto@openbsd.org
<li>Various PATA/SATA 2.5" and 3.5" SSD drives, at least 32GB.
    Contact landry@openbsd.org
<li>Any USB SuperSpeed (3.0) device using isochronous transfers, generally
    webcams or cameras, needed in Aachen, Germany.
    Contact mpi@openbsd.org.
<li>Alix APU boards are needed for wifi hacking in Berlin, Germany.
    Contact stsp@openbsd.org
<li>A <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">loongson</a> system is
    needed in Spain. Only models with HDD. Only shipments from EU.
    Contact juanfra@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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