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This page lists various developer hardware needs. If you are interested in supporting the FreeBSD Project, you might consider donating some piece of hardware on this list to the Project.
We provide the FreeBSD username of the developer who needs a resource, the country they are in (for shipping purposes), the equipment they desire, and the use to which that equipment will be put.
For information on tax deductions and process, please see the information on the main FreeBSD Donation Liaison office page.
If you would like to donate something on this list, please contact donations@FreeBSD.org.
On a general note, we need a variety of Sparc64 machines for testing and improving our Sparc port. Even small, old (or new!) Sparc64 machines are perfectly usable. No matter which country you're in, we almost certainly have someone local who could use it. We could specifically use 1U rack-mounted Sparcs (such as E220R, E420R, Fire V100, Fire V120, or Netra T1 AC200) for our development and package-building clusters in the USA.
Developer ID | Developer Country | Equipment Desired | Equipment Use | |
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ade | Oregon, USA | dual Opteron or EM64T capable Xeon, 2 or 4GB, working gigE, 4*73GB (preferably SCSI but SATA is ok) | fast box to run some heavy-duty ports infrastructure grunt work on i386 and amd64 including, but not limited to, an SQL-backended replacement for the current package building system testmachines. I'm willing to offer up a couple of mini-ITX systems (one Athlon-XP 2700+, 1G, 160GB SATA, gigE, the other an Athlon64-2800+, 1G, 160GB SATA, gigE, in return). | |
arved | Austria | 2 small VLAN-capable switches, e.g. Cisco 2940-8TT | Reduce wiring in my flat. More Switchports for more testmachines. | |
ceri | UK | Two Soekris net4801 boards with cases (part no. 10480151) | For use in testing various network and boot configurations. | |
ceri | UK | A laptop. | Replace previous incarnation which died. Try to make sysinstall as good as it can be. | |
cognet | France | A Zaurus, with hard disk preferably. | FreeBSD/arm development. | |
des | Norway | Mac Mini with 1 GB RAM, no peripherals | Tinderbox. | |
des | Norway | Opteron CPU | Populate a CPU-less motherboard. | |
des | Norway | Any USB device based on the Cypress CY7C637xx / CY7C640/1xx USB to RS232 bridge chip. | Improve the ucycom driver. | |
des | Norway | Any kind of authentication hardware (USB tokens, smart card readers, smart cards, fingerprint scanners, etc.) + documentation | Develop and maintain support for hardware authentication. | |
dfr | UK | Firewire bus analyzer, 1394b is preferable but 1394a is acceptable. | Debug and improve the performance of firewire, especially IP over firewire. | |
glebius | Russia, Moscow | Broadcom BCM5700 PCI-X NIC, preferrably with external SSRAM | Test and profile my changes to network stack. Improve bge(4) driver. | |
glebius | Russia, Moscow | Intel 82546 PCI-X NIC | Test and profile my changes to network stack. Improve em(4) driver. | |
glebius | Russia, Moscow | Manageable switch with at least two Gigabit ports, and few Fast Ethernet ports, capable to do 802.1q, LACP, GVRP, etc. | Test and profile my changes to network stack. | |
grehan | California, USA | Apple G4 XServe | Rackmount PowerPC machine for developer cluster. | |
hmp | United Kingdom | Wireless Router (802.11b/g), and ideally two Wireless USB adapters. | Experiment with wireless technology and to help my recent move to a new house. | |
hmp | United Kingdom | Books: Extreme Programming Explained (2nd Edition) and Planning Extreme Programming. | Expand knowledge of extreme programming. | |
imp | USA | EISA-based pccard hardware | Make EISA pccard driver work. | |
imp | USA | 3Com Xjack wireless card | Make driver work. | |
jake | Canada | 2 450MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs | Faster sparc64 test machine. | |
jake | Canada | Sun server or workstation with UltraSPARCIII CPUs, Blade 1000, Blade 2000, V280R, V480 or V880, preferably with 2 CPUs | Sparc64 UltraSPARCIII support. | |
jesper | United Kingdom | Well supported Gigabit Ethernet cards, preferably with 1000baseSX interface, but 1000baseT works too | Network stack performance measurements / tuning. | |
jcamou | AZ, USA. | Gigabit switch | Development/build cluster. Any kind of switch could work. | |
jkoshy | Bangalore, India | An Alpha/IA64/PPC/Sparc64 machine | Port hwpmc(4) to these architectures. | |
jkoshy | Bangalore, India | Intel Pentium-MMX / Pentium Pro / P-II / P-III machine. | Maintain hwpmc(4) for these CPUs. | |
joel | Sweden | Laptop | This will allow me to work more on FreeBSD during the weekdays, since I travel a lot. Anything that can build CURRENT reasonably fast will be sufficient. | |
joel | Sweden | Small Ethernet 10/100 switch (5-8 ports). | Hook up more machines to my network. | |
johan | Sweden | 17++ inch TFT monitor with both D-Sub and DVI-D connections. | My current monitor is starting to give up. | |
jwd | USA, North Carolina | Cyclades TS800/1000 (or equivalent) | Serial consoles for all hardware in the rtp.FreeBSD.org cluster. | |
kris | -Toronto, CANADA | -ATX12V power supply (20+4 pin power connectors) | -Replace dead power supply in Athlon64 system. | -|
lioux | Brazil | AMD K6 processor 450Mhz or higher. Network switch 10/100 Mbits. Network card Intel EtherExpress PCI 10/100 Mbits | Get a K6 based machine back online and add it as an extra terminal to FreeBSD home LAN. | |
lioux | Brazil | Books on the any of the following subjects: network protocol scheduling (bandwidth/transmission efficiency), process scheduling, scheduling theory in general, digesting (checksums, particularly fine grained checksumming for detection partial file corruption; e.g., tiger trees, sha1 trees), corruption detection and recovery (files, network protocol, etc), distributed processing (localization transparency, migration, redundancy, repartition, scheduling, message passing, shared memory, etc), peer to peer technology, device driver writing and operational system theory | Improve my knowledge regarding operational systems and modern computer science challenges/technologies. For example, I want to write an improved downloading mechanism for FreeBSD distribution (ports and base) that supports graceful corruption detection/recovery, FTP/HTTP/other/it's own protocol, multi-part download, multi-server support, load distribution. Not all at once but in the long term. Most of this knowledge will be reverted to FreeBSD if I can. | |
lioux | Brazil | BrookTree chipset TV Capture Card: either BT848 or BT878 (preferred) that already works with FreeBSD. | Adding BrookTree support to graphics/ffmpeg and several other video processing programs. | |
marcel | CA, USA | Supermicro SuperServer 6113M-i. The machine is a 2-way Itanium 2 (Madison) machine in a 1U rackmount casing. | Replacement machine for the BigSur I have now. The machine is based on the Intel E8870 chipset, which is very common but which we don't have among the active developers. | |
marcel | CA, USA | IBM xSeries 450. The machine is a 4-way Itanium 2 (Madison) based on the IBM XA-64 chipset. | Package build machine in the FreeBSD cluster (aka bento). This machine in particular because of the unique chipset and the fact that it has 4 processors. This makes it an ideal machine for parallel package builds during normal operation and a validation box for release engineering. | |
marcus | RTP, North Carolina, USA | On behalf of the FreeBSD GNOME Project, I would like 1 or 2 amd64 machines and 1 UltraSparc II machine. All three machines should work under FreeBSD -CURRENT. | Better GNOME support under FreeBSD on these architectures. | |
markm | Cambridge, UK | Flexelint v8. (www.gimpel.com) | (Semi-)automated code cleaning and cross-platform compiler needs cleaning. | |
marks | The Netherlands | ACPI laptops (also for lend) | (1) ACPI laptops that work, to test new code on. (2) ACPI laptops that don't work, (to try) to fix. |
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markus | Germany | Ultrabay Slim battery for IBM ThinkPad T41p | (1) Enhance the acpi_ibm(4) driver. (2) Add multiple battery support to various ports. |
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markus | Germany | IBM ThinkPad Dock II | (1) Enhance the acpi_ibm(4) driver. (2) Enhance docking support. |
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matusita | Japan | 2-3 build machines:Pentium4 2GHz+,20GB+ ATA66+ HDD,256MB+RAM, 100base-TX NIC,serial, etc. | Rebuild dying snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org. | |
matusita | Japan | FTP server:Pentium3/Celeron 1GHz+,10GB+ ATA66+ HDD,100GB+ storage (RAID0+1 desirable),256MB+RAM, 100base-TX NIC,serial, etc. | Rebuild dying snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org. | |
mbr | Switzerland | Network cards for RealTek 8129/8139 and clones, DEC/Intel 21143 and workalikes, SiS 900/7016 and clones, NatSemi DP83815/DP83820 and workalikes. I can give feedback if I still need the card. Fixed cards will go to the busdma project. | Add support for unsupported and broken drivers. | |
mikeh | VA, USA | Cordless PS/2 keyboards/mice (especially Gyration and Microsoft wireless desktop products), or any other PS/2 keyboard mice, and KVM products that are not supported by FreeBSD. | Improve PS/2 mouse/keyboard support in FreeBSD. | |
mux | France | Network cards listed on busdma project page. | Busdma conversion of network cards. | |
mux | France | Relatively recent laptop with serial port | Live kernel debugging. | |
obrien | Silicon Valley, USA | AlphaServer DS15. | continued FreeBSD/alpha development and testing. | |
obrien | Silicon Valley, USA | 1U or 2U rack-mount cases, with power supplies. | Build into AMD64 reference machines for the FreeBSD.org cluster. | |
peter | California, USA | Rack mount AMD64 Opteron system. | To make available on the developer cluster. | |
phantom | Germany/Ukraine | Reasonably fast SMP machine | Improve scalability of JDK. | |
phk | Denmark | IEEE-488 controller cards different than PCIIA, preferably PCI bus. | I have started on rudimentary IEEE-488/GP-IB/HP-IB support but I only have access to an ISAN PCIIA controller. | |
sam | USA | crypto devices (pci, pcmcia, cardbus cards, CPUs with builtin crypto support) | For improving hardware crypto support. | |
sos | Denmark | Serial ATA hardware: disks, controllers (including docs), cables, Serial ATA-ATA converters. | Keep ATA support up to date. | |
tanimura | Japan | Any Japanese laptop (Preferably IBM Thinkpad A30 or A31). | Replace a recently stolen IBM. | |
thomas | France | UDMA controller, ATAPI floppy drive, ATAPI tape drive | Ensure these ATAPI devices work with ATAPI/CAM with the same level of functionality currently available with the afd/ast drivers. | |
thompsa | New Zealand | Managed ethernet switch with STP, RSTP and vlan, eg Cisco 2950-12 | Implement the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w) which superseeds 802.1D, this provides rapid layer2 failover of around 1 second compared to 40-60 for STP. |