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<p>This page lists various developer hardware needs. If you are
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interested in supporting the FreeBSD Project, you might consider
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donating some piece of hardware on this list to the Project.</p>
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<p>We provide the FreeBSD username of the developer who needs a
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resource, the country they are in (for shipping purposes), the
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equipment they desire, and the use to which that equipment will
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be put.</p>
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<p>For information on tax deductions and process, please see the
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information on the main <a href="index.html#donating">FreeBSD
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Donation Liaison office</a> page.</p>
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<p>If you would like to donate something on this list, please
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contact donations@FreeBSD.org.</p>
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<p>On a general note, we need a variety of Sparc64 machines for
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testing and improving our Sparc port. Even small, old (or
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new!) Sparc64 machines are perfectly usable. No matter which
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country you're in, we almost certainly have someone local who
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could use it. We could specifically use 1U rack-mounted Sparcs
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(such as E220R, E420R, Fire V100, Fire V120, or Netra T1 AC200)
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for our development and package-building clusters in the
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USA.</p>
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<table class="tblbasic">
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<tr>
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<th>Developer ID</th>
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<th>Developer Country</th>
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<th>Equipment Desired</th>
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<th>Equipment Use</th>
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<td>ade</td>
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<td>Oregon, USA</td>
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<td>dual Opteron or EM64T capable Xeon, 2 or 4GB, working gigE,
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4*73GB (preferably SCSI but SATA is ok)</td>
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<td>fast box to run some heavy-duty ports infrastructure grunt work
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on i386 and amd64 including, but not limited to, an SQL-backended
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replacement for the current package building system testmachines.
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I'm willing to offer up a couple of mini-ITX systems (one Athlon-XP
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2700+, 1G, 160GB SATA, gigE, the other an Athlon64-2800+, 1G, 160GB
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SATA, gigE, in return).</td>
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</tr>
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<td>arved</td>
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<td>Austria</td>
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<td>2 small VLAN-capable switches, e.g. Cisco 2940-8TT</td>
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<td>Reduce wiring in my flat. More Switchports for more
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testmachines.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>ceri</td>
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<td>UK</td>
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<td>Two Soekris net4801 boards with cases (part no.
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10480151)</td>
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<td>For use in testing various network and boot
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configurations.</td>
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<td>ceri</td>
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<td>UK</td>
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<td>A laptop.</td>
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<td>Replace previous incarnation which died. Try to make
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sysinstall as good as it can be.</td>
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<td>cognet</td>
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<td>France</td>
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<td>A Zaurus, with hard disk preferably.</td>
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<td>FreeBSD/arm development.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>des</td>
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<td>Norway</td>
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<td>Mac Mini with 1 GB RAM, no peripherals</td>
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<td>Tinderbox.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>des</td>
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<td>Norway</td>
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<td>Opteron CPU</td>
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<td>Populate a CPU-less motherboard.</td>
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<td>des</td>
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<td>Norway</td>
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<td>Any USB device based on the Cypress CY7C637xx /
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CY7C640/1xx USB to RS232 bridge chip.</td>
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<td>Improve the ucycom driver.</td>
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<td>des</td>
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<td>Norway</td>
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<td>Any kind of authentication hardware (USB tokens, smart
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card readers, smart cards, fingerprint scanners, etc.) +
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documentation</td>
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<td>Develop and maintain support for hardware authentication.</td>
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<td>dfr</td>
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<td>UK</td>
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<td>Firewire bus analyzer, 1394b is preferable but 1394a is
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acceptable.</td>
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<td>Debug and improve the performance of firewire, especially
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IP over firewire.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>glebius</td>
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<td>Russia, Moscow</td>
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<td>Broadcom BCM5700 PCI-X NIC, preferrably with
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external SSRAM</td>
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<td>Test and profile my changes to network stack.
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Improve bge(4) driver.</td>
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<td>glebius</td>
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<td>Russia, Moscow</td>
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<td>Intel 82546 PCI-X NIC</td>
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<td>Test and profile my changes to network stack.
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Improve em(4) driver.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>glebius</td>
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<td>Russia, Moscow</td>
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<td>Manageable switch with at least two Gigabit ports,
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and few Fast Ethernet ports, capable to do 802.1q,
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LACP, GVRP, etc. </td>
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<td>Test and profile my changes to network stack.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>glewis</td>
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<td>Seattle, USA</td>
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<td>An amd64 machine.</td>
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<td>Maintain the jdk15 port for amd64.</td>
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<td>grehan</td>
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<td>California, USA</td>
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<td>Apple G4 XServe</td>
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<td>Rackmount PowerPC machine for developer cluster.</td>
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<td>hmp</td>
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<td>United Kingdom</td>
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<td>Wireless Router (802.11b/g), and ideally two Wireless
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USB adapters.</td>
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<td>Experiment with wireless technology and to help my recent
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move to a new house.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>hmp</td>
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<td>United Kingdom</td>
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<td>Books: Extreme Programming Explained (2nd Edition) and
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Planning Extreme Programming.</td>
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<td>Expand knowledge of extreme programming.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>imp</td>
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<td>USA</td>
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<td>EISA-based pccard hardware</td>
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<td>Make EISA pccard driver work.</td>
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<td>imp</td>
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<td>USA</td>
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<td>3Com Xjack wireless card</td>
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<td>Make driver work.</td>
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<td>jake</td>
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<td>Canada</td>
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<td>2 450MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs</td>
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<td>Faster sparc64 test machine.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>jake</td>
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<td>Canada</td>
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<td>Sun server or workstation with UltraSPARCIII CPUs, Blade
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1000, Blade 2000, V280R, V480 or V880, preferably with 2
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CPUs</td>
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<td>Sparc64 UltraSPARCIII support.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>jesper</td>
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<td>United Kingdom</td>
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<td>Well supported Gigabit Ethernet cards, preferably with 1000baseSX
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interface, but 1000baseT works too</td>
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<td>Network stack performance measurements / tuning.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>jcamou</td>
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<td>AZ, USA.</td>
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<td>Gigabit switch</td>
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<td>Development/build cluster. Any kind of switch could
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work.</td>
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</tr>
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<td><a name="jkoshy-1">jkoshy</a></td>
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<td>Bangalore, India</td>
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<td>An Alpha/IA64/PPC/Sparc64 machine</td>
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<td>Port hwpmc(4) to these architectures.</td>
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</tr>
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<td><a name="jkoshy-2">jkoshy</a></td>
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<td>Bangalore, India</td>
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<td>Intel Pentium-MMX / Pentium Pro / P-II / P-III machine.</td>
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<td>Maintain hwpmc(4) for these CPUs.</td>
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<td>joel</td>
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<td>Sweden</td>
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<td>Laptop</td>
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<td>This will allow me to work more on FreeBSD during the weekdays,
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since I travel a lot. Anything that can build CURRENT reasonably
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fast will be sufficient.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>joel</td>
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<td>Sweden</td>
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<td>Small Ethernet 10/100 switch (5-8 ports).</td>
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<td>Hook up more machines to my network.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>johan</td>
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<td>Sweden</td>
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<td>17++ inch TFT monitor with both D-Sub and DVI-D connections.</td>
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<td>My current monitor is starting to give up.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>jwd</td>
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<td>USA, North Carolina</td>
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<td>Cyclades TS800/1000 (or equivalent)</td>
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<td>Serial consoles for all hardware in the rtp.FreeBSD.org cluster.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>kris</td>
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<td>Toronto, CANADA</td>
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<td>ATX12V power supply (20+4 pin power connectors)</td>
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<td>Replace dead power supply in Athlon64 system.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>lioux</td>
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<td>Brazil</td>
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<td>AMD K6 processor 450Mhz or higher. Network switch
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10/100 Mbits. Network card Intel EtherExpress PCI 10/100
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Mbits</td>
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<td>Get a K6 based machine back online and add it as an
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extra terminal to FreeBSD home LAN.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>lioux</td>
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<td>Brazil</td>
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<td>Books on the any of the following subjects: network
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protocol scheduling (bandwidth/transmission efficiency),
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process scheduling, scheduling theory in general, digesting
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(checksums, particularly fine grained checksumming for
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detection partial file corruption; e.g., tiger trees,
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sha1 trees), corruption detection and recovery (files,
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network protocol, etc), distributed processing (localization
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transparency, migration, redundancy, repartition, scheduling,
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message passing, shared memory, etc), peer to peer
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technology, device driver writing and operational system
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theory</td>
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<td>Improve my knowledge regarding operational systems and
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modern computer science challenges/technologies. For
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example, I want to write an improved downloading mechanism
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for FreeBSD distribution (ports and base) that supports
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graceful corruption detection/recovery, FTP/HTTP/other/it's
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own protocol, multi-part download, multi-server support,
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load distribution. Not all at once but in the long term.
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Most of this knowledge will be reverted to FreeBSD if I
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can.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>lioux</td>
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<td>Brazil</td>
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<td>BrookTree chipset TV Capture Card: either BT848 or BT878
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(preferred) that already works with FreeBSD.</td>
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<td>Adding BrookTree support to graphics/ffmpeg and several
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other video processing programs.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>marcel</td>
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<td>CA, USA</td>
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<td>Supermicro SuperServer 6113M-i. The machine is a 2-way
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Itanium 2 (Madison) machine in a 1U rackmount casing.</td>
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<td>Replacement machine for the BigSur I have now. The machine
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is based on the Intel E8870 chipset, which is very common but
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which we don't have among the active developers.</td>
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<td>marcel</td>
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<td>CA, USA</td>
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<td>IBM xSeries 450. The machine is a 4-way Itanium 2 (Madison)
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based on the IBM XA-64 chipset.</td>
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<td>Package build machine in the FreeBSD cluster (aka bento).
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This machine in particular because of the unique chipset and
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the fact that it has 4 processors. This makes it an ideal
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machine for parallel package builds during normal operation
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and a validation box for release engineering.</td>
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<td>marcus</td>
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<td>RTP, North Carolina, USA</td>
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<td>On behalf of the FreeBSD GNOME Project, I would like 1 or 2
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amd64 machines and 1 UltraSparc II machine. All three
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machines should work under FreeBSD -CURRENT.</td>
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<td>Better GNOME support under FreeBSD on these architectures.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>markm</td>
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<td>Cambridge, UK</td>
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<td>Flexelint v8. (www.gimpel.com)</td>
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<td>(Semi-)automated code cleaning and cross-platform compiler needs
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cleaning.</td>
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<td>marks</td>
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<td>The Netherlands</td>
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<td>ACPI laptops (also for lend)</td>
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<td>(1) ACPI laptops that work, to test new code on.<br>
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(2) ACPI laptops that don't work, (to try) to fix.</td>
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<td>markus</td>
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<td>Germany</td>
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<td>Ultrabay Slim battery for IBM ThinkPad T41p</td>
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<td>(1) Enhance the acpi_ibm(4) driver.<br>
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(2) Add multiple battery support to various ports.</td>
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<td>markus</td>
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<td>Germany</td>
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<td>IBM ThinkPad Dock II</td>
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<td>(1) Enhance the acpi_ibm(4) driver.<br>
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(2) Enhance docking support.</td>
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<td>matusita</td>
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<td>Japan</td>
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<td>2-3 build machines:Pentium4 2GHz+,20GB+ ATA66+
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HDD,256MB+RAM, 100base-TX NIC,serial, etc.</td>
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<td>Rebuild dying snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org.</td>
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<td>matusita</td>
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<td>Japan</td>
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<td>FTP server:Pentium3/Celeron 1GHz+,10GB+ ATA66+ HDD,100GB+
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storage (RAID0+1 desirable),256MB+RAM, 100base-TX
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NIC,serial, etc.</td>
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<td>Rebuild dying snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org.</td>
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<td>mbr</td>
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<td>Switzerland</td>
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<td>Network cards for RealTek 8129/8139 and clones,
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DEC/Intel 21143 and workalikes, SiS 900/7016 and clones,
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NatSemi DP83815/DP83820 and workalikes. I can give feedback
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if I still need the card. Fixed cards will go to the busdma
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project.</td>
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<td>Add support for unsupported and broken drivers.</td>
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<td>mikeh</td>
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<td>VA, USA</td>
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<td>Cordless PS/2 keyboards/mice (especially <a
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href="http://www.gyration.com/products.htm">Gyration</a> and
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<a
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href="http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/keyboard/default.asp">Microsoft
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wireless desktop</a> products), or any other PS/2 keyboard
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mice, and KVM products that are not supported by
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FreeBSD.</td>
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<td>Improve PS/2 mouse/keyboard support in FreeBSD.</td>
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<td>mux</td>
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<td>France</td>
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<td>Network cards listed on <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/busdma/">busdma
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project</a> page.</td>
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<td>Busdma conversion of network cards.<td>
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<td>mux</td>
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<td>France</td>
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<td>Relatively recent laptop with serial port</td>
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<td>Live kernel debugging.</td>
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<td>obrien</td>
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<td>Silicon Valley, USA</td>
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<td>AlphaServer DS15.</td>
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<td>continued FreeBSD/alpha development and testing.</td>
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<td>obrien</td>
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<td>Silicon Valley, USA</td>
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<td>1U or 2U rack-mount cases, with power supplies. </td>
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<td>Build into AMD64 reference machines for the FreeBSD.org
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cluster.</td>
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<td>peter</td>
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<td>California, USA</td>
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<td>Rack mount AMD64 Opteron system.</td>
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<td>To make available on the developer cluster. </td>
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<td>phantom</td>
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<td>Germany/Ukraine</td>
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<td>Reasonably fast SMP machine</td>
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<td>Improve scalability of JDK.</td>
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<td>phk</td>
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<td>Denmark</td>
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<td>
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IEEE-488 controller cards different than PCIIA, preferably
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PCI bus.
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<td>
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I have started on rudimentary IEEE-488/GP-IB/HP-IB support
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but I only have access to an ISAN PCIIA controller.
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<td>sam</td>
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<td>USA</td>
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<td>crypto devices (pci, pcmcia, cardbus cards,
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CPUs with builtin crypto support)</td>
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<td>For improving hardware crypto support.</td>
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<td>sos</td>
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<td>Denmark</td>
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<td>Serial ATA hardware: disks, controllers (including docs),
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cables, Serial ATA-ATA converters.</td>
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<td>Keep ATA support up to date.</td>
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<td>tanimura</td>
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<td>Japan</td>
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<td>Any Japanese laptop (Preferably IBM Thinkpad A30 or A31).</td>
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<td>Replace a recently stolen IBM.</td>
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<td>thomas</td>
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<td>France</td>
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<td>UDMA controller, ATAPI floppy drive, ATAPI tape drive</td>
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<td>Ensure these ATAPI devices work with ATAPI/CAM with the
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same level of functionality currently available with the
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afd/ast drivers.</td>
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<td>thompsa</td>
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<td>New Zealand</td>
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<td>Managed ethernet switch with STP, RSTP and vlan, eg Cisco 2950-12</td>
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<td>Implement the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w) which
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superseeds 802.1D, this provides rapid layer2 failover of around 1
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second compared to 40-60 for STP.</td>
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