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.
| Developer ID | Developer Country | Equipment Desired | Equipment Use | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ade | Oregon, USA | Mini-ITX, Athlon X2 processor, 2/4GB RAM, 1 (pref 2) SATA-II drives. | Going to be in my home office, so I can sacrifice performance in favor of less noise pollution. | |
| brueffer | Switzerland | 512MB or 1GB PC2700 SO-DIMM RAM module | Keeping an elderly Thinkpad T41p (my main machine) usable. | |
| cognet | -France | -A Zaurus, with hard disk preferably. | -FreeBSD/arm development. | -|
| des | Norway | Mac Mini with 1 GB RAM, no peripherals | Tinderbox. | |
| dfr | UK | Firewire bus analyzer, 1394b is preferable but 1394a is acceptable. | Debug and improve the performance of firewire, especially IP over firewire. | |
| grehan | California, USA | Apple G4 XServe | Rackmount PowerPC machine for developer cluster. | |
| jcamou | AZ, USA. | Gigabit switch | Development/build cluster. Any kind of switch could work. | |
| jkoshy | Rishi Valley, India. | 4-port USB KVM switch & USB<->PS/2 adapters | Facilitate working with multiple machines. | |
| jkoshy | Rishi Valley, India. | Solar backed UPS (500W x 4-6 hrs) | Permit work on FreeBSD in the absence of grid power. | |
| jmg | California, USA | Fast multiprocessor AMD64 capable machine (dual core CPU ok). | General build box to support FreeBSD work including ARM and multi-arch testing of patches. | |
| kientzle | California, USA | Tape drive, preferably SCSI DDS-3 or later | bsdtar testing and development. | |
| linimon | Texas, USA | Sun v210/v240 CPU fan | Upgrade package building machine. | |
| lioux | Brazil | Books on 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. | |
| marcel | CA, USA | 1GB of low-profile PC133 SDRAM (168pin DIMM). Memory can be buffered or unbuffered. preferrably one 1GB DIMM or two 512MB DIMMs. Low-profile is a must. ECC is optional. | More memory allows for better workloads when testing code in SMP setups. | |
| 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 | 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. | |
| 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. | |
| portmgr | Silion Valley, California | 36GB or greater 1" high SCSI hard drives | Add more capacity to i386 and sparc64 package building clusters. | |
| portmgr | worldwide | sparc64 gear | We could specifically use rack-mounted Sparcs (such as SunFire V120, V210, or V240) for our package building cluster in the US. | |
| rpaulo | Portugal | IBM ThinkPad T4x laptop. | General FreeBSD kernel/userland development/testing. | |
| rpaulo | Portugal | Intel Mac, possibly Mac Mini for a small shipment fee | EFI support under FreeBSD and other Mac development work. | |
| sam | USA | crypto devices (pci, pcmcia, cardbus cards, CPUs with builtin crypto support) | For improving hardware crypto support. | |
| simon / cperciva | Ontario, Canada | Fast 1U rack mountable server. Preferably 4 cores, 2GB RAM, 2 x 36GB+ disks, decent hardware RAID controller for RAID1, 100Mbit NIC, and not too electrical power hungry. | Faster portsnap build system to reduce time between portsnap builds and to introduce more redundancy in portsnap to reduce downtime in case one build server fails. | |
| simon | Denmark | 12 port Remote Power Controller 220V 10A with serial or Ethernet connection. It does not have to be one big power controller and fewer than 12 ports can certainly also be a good start. | Being able to remote power cycle servers hosted at home, including tb3 / tb4.droso.net and all the assosiated network equipment. | |
| simon | Denmark | 1KW - 1.5KW APC Smart-UPS or similar | Being able to have all local systems (including tb[345].droso.net) turned on without current UPS complaining about overload. | |
| simon | Denmark | 8 port serial console server. | Being able to remote manage servers hosted at home better, including tb3 / tb4.droso.net. | |
| simon | Denmark | Dual Opteron server motherboard which supports Opteron 875 CPU's, 2GB ECC RAM, 2xSATA disks (RAID1) | Replacement hardware for trillian.nitro.dk / tb3.droso.net (it is currently running on my workstation) which is a system I host where all FreeBSD committers can get an account. It is mainly used by ports developers for testing, but is also used by multiple SoC 2006 students. | |
| tanimura | Japan | Any Japanese laptop (Preferably IBM Thinkpad A30 or A31). | Replace a recently stolen IBM. | |
| tabthorpe | Canada | AMD64 machine, minimum 256 M memory, any size hard drive. | Ports testing and building. |