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

• miod@openbsd.org and martin@openbsd.org for "older hardware" in Europe.
• deraadt@openbsd.org for any general offers or questions.

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. It is important to spread sparc64 around the development community, since it is the most strict platform for detecting non-portable or buggy code.
• 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.

Networking equipment

• A 1U 10-Gigabit switch (or two).

10Gb Ethernet Support

• 10GbaseSR SFP+ modules for use in 10Gb network cards
• Switches with 10Gb modules for hacking
• Direct Attach (SFP+) and CX4 cabling
• optical cabling with LC connectors (for 10GbaseSR and 10GbaseLR)
• Broadcom, Emulex (ServerEngines) and QLogic 10Gb NICs for driver development

Specific platform requests by our developers

• aviion:
  • A working 400, 4000 or 4300 motherboard, preferrably with two processors. Contact miod@openbsd.org.
• hppa64:
  • HP J6700/J6750 2U machines. Note these are fairly cheap on Ebay at the moment. Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
• i386:
  • A Commmell LE-565 motherboard is needed in Australia. Contact djm@openbsd.org.
  • Four Dell R610 (or similar) 2.5" SAS drive sleds. Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
  • Two DRAC (remote access cards) for Dell 1750 servers. Contact espie@openbsd.org.
• loongson:
  • A Loongson 3A machine needed in Mountain View, CA, USA. Contact martynas@openbsd.org.
• macppc:
  • A G4 Mac mini or a PowerMac G5 is needed in France for ports testing and development. Contact benoit@openbsd.org
• octeon:
  • Any unsupported OCTEON hardware, such as the D-Link DSR-500(N), DSR-1000(N) or Lanner MR-320, MR-330, MR-730, or Portwell KILIN-6005. are needed for testing and development in Gorinchem, The Netherlands. Contact jasper@openbsd.org.
• socppc:
  • A Thecus N1200 is needed in Australia. Contact djm@openbsd.org.
• sparc:
  • A removable hard drive for SPARCbook (Tadpole S3GX), preferably 2GB or bigger, needed in Paris, France. Contact ajacoutot@openbsd.org.
• sparc64:
  • Disk drive caddies for the T5120/5220/5140/5240-series machines (with disks in them, or empty). Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
• vax:
  • A DWCTX-BX TURBOchannel adapter for VAXstation 4000/60 and VAXstation 4000/{90,96} is needed in France. Contact miod@openbsd.org.

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 dlg@openbsd.org.
• A LSISAS2008 based SAS controller to help in mpii(4) development. Needed in Brisbane, Australia. Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
• A Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe card. Needed in Brisbane, Australia. Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
• A PCIe to SD/MMC Card reader controller such as the JMicron JMB38X family. Needed in Brisbane, Australia. Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
• QLogic ISP10160 SCSI adapter needed in Assen, the Netherlands. Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
• Some kind of Magma 1 (or 3) slot Expresscard->PCIe expansion system, for improving our PCI drivers. Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
• CardBus serial adapter to unify PCI/CardBus serial code. Needed in Melbourne, Australia. Contact jsg@openbsd.org.
• Any VIA Rhine (VT610x) 10/100 PCI ethernet cards. Contact dtucker@openbsd.org.

Specific devices and equipment needed by our developers

• 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.
• TI TUSB3140 serial USB adapter in Calgary. Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
• A SATA drive around 250Gb for a ProLiant DL145 G2 needed in Hannover, Germany. Contact reyk@openbsd.org.
• Narrow SCSI (50pin) disk drive 4GB or more, 3.5" size is needed near New York City, USA. Contact kurt@openbsd.org.
• Sun StorEdge MultiPack-FC desktop array needed in Assen, The Netherlands. Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
• A variety pack of shortish (SPF connectors on at least one end) fibers wanted in Calgary. Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
• Interesting bit of portable ARM hardware wanted in Oslo, Norway. Contact blambert@openbsd.org
• 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
• A USB drive that supports "USB Attached SCSI" wanted in San Francisco, CA, USA. Contact matthew@openbsd.org.
• 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.
• 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.
• A fast and small laptop needed to work on compiler toolchain, security mitigations, and the math library. In Mountain View, CA, USA. Contact martynas@openbsd.org.
• 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.
• 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
• A rack mountable UltraSPARC T1, T2 or T2+ machine or a Sun Fire T1000 motherboard. Contact otto@openbsd.org
• Various PATA/SATA 2.5" and 3.5" SSD drives, at least 32GB. Contact landry@openbsd.org
• Any USB SuperSpeed (3.0) device using isochronous transfers, generally webcams or cameras, needed in Aachen, Germany. Contact mpi@openbsd.org.

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 espie@openbsd.org.