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.
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| Developer ID | Developer Country | Equipment Desired | Equipment Use | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anholt | USA | AT Rage Pro, AGP or PCI | develop and maintain DRI support | |
| gioria | France | Pentium 3 or 4, 256MB RAM, at least 30GB of disk, 100MB - Fast-Ehernet NIC.If possible DDS3/4 tape drive for backup. + Fast-Ehernet NIC. If possible DDS3/4 tape drive for backup. | Replacing the old and shared www.FreeBSD-fr.ORG server by a dedicated, new machine. | |
| imp | +USA | +Pentium EISA system | +improve and modernize EISA support | +|
| imp | +USA | +EISA-based pccard hardware | +Make EISA pccard driver work | +|
| imp | +USA | +sbus-based pccard hardware | +Make sbus pccard driver work | +|
| imp | +USA | +sparc64 machine with PCI and sbus slots | +make pccard/cardbus work | +|
| imp | +USA | +3Com Xjack wireless card | +make driver work | +|
| jake | +Canada | +various newer PCI network cards (fxp, xl, dc drivers) | +Sparc64 driver support | +|
| jake | +Canada | +2 450MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs | +Faster sparc64 test machine | +|
| jake | +Canada | +2 9 or 18 gig half heigth SCA scsi drives | +Faster FreeBSD/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 | Denmark | 4 pieces of 512 MB PC100 or PC133 SDRAM memory | Memory upgrade for ftp.FreeBSD.org | |
| jmallett | +USA, Kansas | +small, headless, low-end Sparc 64 or Alpha system | +Cross-platform development | +|
| joe | UK | USB Keyboard | USB keyboard support | |
| kris | USA | DDS-3/DDS-4 tape drive, 4-way KVM switch | Make my computer lab more usable for hacking | |
| 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 | |
| mike | Canada | POSIX specifications: 1003.1-1990 and 1003.1-1996. | To ensure proper conformance to older standards while implementing newer ones. | |
| mini | +USA (west coast) | +multi-processor x86 machine | +For work on SMP KSE | +|
| murray | USA | 2Ghz+ Pentium 4 or Athlon, 512MB RAM, 20GB+ space, 100MB NIC | Faster i386 build machine for FreeBSD releases. | |
| netchild | +Germany | +Pentium 4, enough RAM (256MB or more, our official port + build machine has 1GB) and harddisk space (official port build + machine: 5x36GB and 1x18GB), 100MB NIC. No graphic card is needed + if the BIOS is accessible from the serial console. Nice to have: + some hardware to make backups. | +Build and test P4 optimized packages with Intels C/C++ + compiler. | +|
| sos | Denmark | -Alpha with PCI bus | +21164 or faster Alpha with PCI bus | ATA support |
| sos | +Denmark | +Serial ATA hardware: disks, controllers (including docs), + cables, Serial ATA-ATA converters. | +Keep ATA support up to date. | +|
| 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. | +|
| trevor | +USA | +SCSI adapter bootable on an EB164 Alpha + (Qlogic/Performance Technology ISP1020 or ISP1040, or a card + with NCR/Symbios 53C810, 53C810A, or 53C825) | +Testing ports and security patches on the Alpha | +|
| wilko | +the Netherlands | +memory for a AlphaStation 500/266. 64 MB or better | +Alpha platform development | +
On a more general note, we have need of a variety of Sparc 64 + machines for testing our new Sparc port. Even small, old (or + new!) Sparc 64 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.
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