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       <literal>portmgr</literal>.
     </para>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>Due to some generous donations, <literal>portmgr</literal> is
+	no longer looking for the loan of &i386; or <literal>amd64</literal>
+	systems.  However, we are still interested in borrowing tier-2
+	systems.</para>
+    </note>
+
     <sect2 id="node-requirements">
       <title>Node requirements</title>
 
@@ -1335,11 +1342,8 @@ umount: Cleanup of /x/tmp/8-exp/chroot/53837/compat/linux/proc failed!
 
       <itemizedlist>
 	<listitem>
-	  <para>CPU capacity: TBA.  However, we have several dual-CPU
-	    P-III &i386; 1.0GHz machines available, so anything with
-	    less horsepower than that is not as likely to be useful.
-	    (However, many of our &sparc64;s are single-CPU, 500MHz
-	    machines, so our requirements are lower.)</para>
+	  <para>CPU capacity: anything less than 500MHz is generally
+	    not useful for package building.</para>
 
 	  <note>
 	    <para>We are able to adjust the number of jobs
@@ -1349,9 +1353,9 @@ umount: Cleanup of /x/tmp/8-exp/chroot/53837/compat/linux/proc failed!
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>
-	  <para>RAM: TBA.  Again, we have been tuning to one job
-	    per 512M of RAM.  (Anything less than 512M is very
-	    unlikely to be useful.)</para>
+	  <para>RAM: Less than 2G is not very useful; 8G or more
+	    is preferred.  We have been tuning to one job
+	    per 512M of RAM.</para>
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>