Hardware wanted

• To support a specific device, normally one which is more rare or new.
• To be part of their development environment.
• 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.
• That said, space or power may be at a premium for some people.

If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you search on eBay 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.

If it is clear which specific developer should be contacted, please do so directly. Otherwise contact Theo de Raadt who will pass on the message to whichever developers are in need.

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

Specific developers to contact for various reasons

• [email protected] and [email protected] for "older hardware" in Europe.
• [email protected] for any general offers or questions.
• [email protected] for any new wireless equipment.

General device requirements.

• Narrow SCSI disk drives of 2GB or more, 3.5" size. (Narrow SCSI means 50pin).
  Many developers are running out of these drives, which are needed to continue supporting older hardware.
  
• Laptops. These die often enough that our developers need about 2-3 replacements a year.
• Apple Mac powerpc equipment.
• HP J6750 machines (J6700 is the second best choice).
• Faster & smaller sparc64 machines, for instance 1U rack mount machines
• Any amd64 or faster i386 hardware which comes available.
• 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.
• A variety of laptops for our ACPI developers working on suspend.

Networking equipment

• 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!
• A 1U 10-Gigabit switch (such as Procurve 6600-24XG or 6410cl-6XG)

10Gb Ethernet Support

• 10GbaseSR XFP modules for use in 10Gb network cards
• Switches with 10Gb modules for hacking
• CX4 cabling
• optical cabling with LC connectors (for 10GbaseSR and 10GbaseLR)
• NetEffect 10Gb NICs for driver development

Specific platform requests by our developers

• hppa64:
  • HP J6700/J6750 2U machines. Note these are fairly cheap on Ebay at the moment. Contact [email protected]
• i386:
  • A Commmell LE-565 motherboard is needed in Australia. Contact [email protected]
  • Four Dell R610 (or similar) 2.5" SAS drive sleds. Contact [email protected]
  • A laptop with 15" screen is needed in Russia. Contact [email protected]
  • An X-series ThinkPad (preferably x200/x201/x220) with good batteries needed for ports development in the Netherlands. Contact [email protected]
• macppc:
  • An Xserve G4 (or G5 w/ PATA disks) is needed in France for ports testing and development. Contact [email protected]
  • A G4 Mac mini or a PowerMac G5 is needed in France for ports testing and development. Contact [email protected]
• sgi:
  • A Power Indigo2 R8000 (IP26) system needed in France. Contact [email protected]
• socppc:
  • A Thecus N1200 is needed in Australia. Contact [email protected]
• sparc64:
  • An SBus-based UltraSPARC workstation, preferably a Sun Ultra 2, needed in Assen, The Netherlands. Contact [email protected]
• vax:
  • A DWCTX-BX TURBOchannel adapter for VAXstation 4000/60 and VAXstation 4000/{90,96} is needed in France. Contact [email protected]
• Miscellaneous:
  • Itanium 1U or 2U machines wanted in various places. Contact [email protected]
  • Machines with Intel GM45 Graphics chipsets or newer (preferably with provision for serial console) needed in London, UK for X driver development. Contact [email protected]
  • Low profile machine with azalia(4) in France. Contact [email protected]
  • X60 power supply (schuko plug, preferably) and X60 dock (X6 UltraBase) battery in Aalborg, Denmark. Contact [email protected]

Specific cards needed by our developers

• An Intel IOP348 based SAS controller (such as the Supermicro AOC-USAS-S4i) to help in sli(4) development. Needed in Brisbane, Australia. Contact [email protected]
• A LSISAS2008 based SAS controller to help in mpii(4) development. Needed in Brisbane, Australia. Contact [email protected]
• A Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe card. Needed in Brisbane, Australia. Contact [email protected]
• A PCIe to SD/MMC Card reader controller such as the JMicron JMB38X family. Needed in Brisbane, Australia. Contact [email protected]
• A MiniPCI GPS Receiver for timedelta sensor related development in Sunnyvale, USA. The appropriate antenna and MiniPCI-to-PCI adapters would also be useful. Contact [email protected]
• One or two Marvell Yukon II based ethernet cards needed in France. Contact [email protected]
• QLogic ISP10160 SCSI adapter needed in Assen, the Netherlands. Contact [email protected]
• Some kind of Magma 1 (or 3) slot Expresscard->PCIe expansion system, for improving our PCI drivers. Contact [email protected]
• Sun XVR-300 framebuffer needed in Assen, the Netherlands. Contact [email protected]
• PCI and CardBus/PCMCIA USB adapters (any speed) and a variety of USB hubs (also any speed) wanted in Oregon, USA. Contact [email protected]
• All types of USB devices, especially USB network devices, wanted in Oregon, USA. Contact [email protected]
• Intel X540-T2 to add support for newer devices to ix(4). Needed in Melbourne, Australia. Contact [email protected]

Specific devices and equipment needed by our developers

• Any MPLS capable equipment for interoperability testing. E.g. Cisco 1841. Contact [email protected] and claudi[email protected]
• Bluetooth devices, especially phones, keyboards, mice, and headsets. Contact [email protected]
• 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 [email protected]
• A MiniPCI GPS Receiver for timedelta sensor related development in Sunnyvale, USA. The appropriate antenna and MiniPCI-to-PCI adapters would also be useful. Contact [email protected]
• 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 [email protected]
• CDMA clock (Praecis Ct or similar) in Sunnyvale, USA. Contact [email protected]
• 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 [email protected], short-term loan acceptable.
• TI TUSB3140 serial USB adapter in Calgary. Contact [email protected]
• A SATA drive around 250Gb for a ProLiant DL145 G2 needed in Hannover, Germany. Contact [email protected]
• Narrow SCSI (50pin) disk drive 4GB or more, 3.5" size is needed near New York City, USA. Contact [email protected]
• Sun StorEdge MultiPack-FC desktop array needed in Assen, The Netherlands. Contact [email protected]
• A variety pack of shortish (SPF connectors on at least one end) fibers wanted in Calgary. Contact [email protected]
• An HP All-in-one (printer-fax-scanner) network and USB (print/hpijs), needed for support in ports in Paris, France. Contact [email protected]
• Interesting bit of portable ARM hardware wanted in Oslo, Norway. Contact [email protected]
• 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 [email protected]
• 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 a. d. Havel, Germany. Contact [email protected]
• My Toshiba Libretto U500 seems to die slowly, which means I'm out of a notebook. I'd like to have a new one ;) Otherwise, for the GNUstep and other ports, a PPC, ARM or AMD64 based notebook would also be fine. Contact [email protected]
• A USB drive that supports "USB Attached SCSI" wanted in San Francisco, CA, USA. Contact [email protected]
• 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 [email protected]
• Parallax Propeller board, like Propeller Platform USB, for porting and testing development/programming software in ports, needed in Gorinchem, the Netherlands. Contact [email protected]

Software wanted

• 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 [email protected]