The NetBSD Project is entirely a volunteer project, and charges nothing for the software it produces. Because of this, it's a lot harder to support new hardware. Unfortunately, support for a piece of hardware doesn't mean simply writing the code that makes the hardware usable; it also includes making sure that code is improved as time goes on, and is kept up to date with the changing interfaces to the rest of the system. That means that in order to provide a decent level of support for a piece of hardware, someone working closely with NetBSD's port maintainers, or one of the port maintainers themselves, must have access to the hardware and be willing to support it. Unfortunately, because the NetBSD Project isn't funded by sales or royalties, the developers can't afford to buy all the hardware that users want to have supported. Therefore, they must rely on others to make hardware and other donations. The following individuals (in alphabetical order) have made donations or loans of hardware and/or money to support NetBSD development, and deserve credit for it: Steve Allen Grant Beattie Erik Berls Jason Birnschein Mason Loring Bliss Stephen Borrill Jason Brazile Mark Brinicombe David Brownlee Pierre-Philipp Braun Simon Burge Dave Burgess James Bursa Ralph Campbell Brian D. Carlstrom Chris Casey James Chacon Bill Coldwell Charles Conn Tom Coulter Charles D. Cranor Christopher G. Demetriou Stephen Early Scott Ellis Erik E. Fair Hubert Feyrer Castor Fu Greg Gingerich William Gnadt Michael Graff Guenther Grau Ross Harvey Tino Hanich Charles M. Hannum Arend Harrewijne John Heasley Armijn Hemel Michael L. Hitch Kenneth Alan Hornstein Jordan K. Hubbard Hans Hübner Akihiro IIJIMA Matthew Jacob Andreas Jellinghaus Søren Jørvang Scott Kaplan Noah M. Keiserman Aloys Keller Harald Koerfgen John Kohl Mel Kravitz Chris Legrow Ernst Lehmann Ted Lemon Klaus Lichti Roland Lichti Lars Mathiassen Norman R. McBride Neil J. McRae GK Meier Perry E. Metzger Zach Metzinger Luke Mewburn Bernhard Möllemann Richard Nelson Joachim Nink Toru Nishimura Hidekichi Ookubo Robert Pankratz Herb Peyerl Mike Price Dave Rand John P. Refling Michael Richardson Pawel Rogocz Thomas Runge Heiko W.Rupp Brad Salai Tyler Sarna Matthias Scheler Jens Schönfeld Carl Shapiro Chuck Silvers Thor Lancelot Simon Bill Sommerfeld Paul Southworth Eric and Rosemary Spahr Ted Spradley Gan Uesli Starling Bill Squier Kevin Sullivan Kimmo Suominen TAKEUCHI Yoji Matt Thomas Michael Thompson Jason R. Thorpe Steve Wadlow Hanno Wagner Krister Walfridsson Peter C. Wallace Scott Walters Rob Windsor Jim Wise Tino Wildenhain Gordon Zaft Reinoud Zandijk Christos Zoulas If you're not on this list and should be, or see any other problem with it, tell us! We always ask for permission before adding people to the list. In addition to specific hardware, there are many other donations that can help the NetBSD project, such as various storage media, internet bandwidth, and both web and ftp mirrors. If you have money, hardware or services that you would like to donate to the NetBSD Project, please see our donations page. TAKEUCHI Yoji ytakeuch@po.iijnet.or.jp has shipped DeskStation Technology Tyne motherboards to Izumi Tsutsui and Noriyuki Soda to help with work on NetBSD/arc. [20030613] Hidekichi Ookubo ookubo@videa.or.jp has shipped a Sony NWS-5000X with NWB-5852 to Izumi Tsutsui to help with work on NetBSD/newsmips. [20020407] Gan Starling has donated a pair of MVME PPC boards to The NetBSD Foundation (and lent a third to be returned when a NetBSD port for these boards is available). [20011217] Arend Harrewijne has donated an IBM RS/6000 410 to Jaromir Dolecek, who's interested in porting NetBSD to it. [20010826] Akihiro IIJIMA aki@jp.FreeBSD.org has provided Chuck Silvers with a Sony PWS-1550 via Izumi Tsutsui, to help with work on the UBC project and NetBSD/news68k. [20010813] Akihiro had also given a NWS-1460 to Izumi Tsutsui, and had sent various NEWS machines to several developers. Matt Thomas has donated a MVME177 to the NetBSD Foundation, with which Steve Woodford was able to complete support for the MVME177 in NetBSD/mvme68k. [20010809] Algorithmics, Ltd. has provided Jason Thorpe with an Algorithmics P-6032 board, for the purpose of porting NetBSD to it. [20010621] Carl Shaprio has provided Jason Thorpe with an Algorithmics P-4032 board, for the purpose of maintaining NetBSD/algor. [20010605] Allegro Networks has provided Jason Thorpe with an Algorithmics P-5064 board, for the purpose of porting NetBSD to it. [20010524] Stephen Borrill has lent a Precedence NC to Ben Harris, who is interested in porting NetBSD to it. [20010310] Peter C. Wallace has shipped a DEC 3000/300LX to Andrew Doran to help with work on TURBOchannel device support. [20010227] Gordon Zaft has shipped a DECstation 3100 to Justin Riegle to help with work on NetBSD/pmax. [20010206] Rob Windsor has shipped a BeBox to Allen Briggs to help with work on NetBSD/bebox. [20010123] Scott Walters scott@illogics.org has shipped a PowerBook 1400cs to Thiago Pimentel thiago@sergipe.com.br. [20010108] James Bursa james@bursa.freeuk.com gave an Archimedes 440/1 to Ben Harris bjh21@NetBSD.org to help with work on NetBSD/arm26. [20000713] Stephen Early lent an Acorn R140 to Ben Harris bjh21@cam.ac.uk to help with work on NetBSD/arm26. [20000511] NoRM norm@mono.org shipped a SPARC 1+ to Andrew Doran ad@NetBSD.org to help with work on NetBSD/sparc. [20000126] Michael Thompson m_thompson@ids.net shipped a Sun 3/460 CPU board, 32 megabytes of RAM, and two SCSI controllers to Jeremy Cooper jeremy@NetBSD.org (the NetBSD/sun3 portmaster) to provide a testing system for finalizing NetBSD support for the Sun 3/460, 3/470 and 3/480. [20000110] William Gnadt wgnadt@rri-usa.org shipped a 4GB Seagate SCSI drive to Phil Nelson phil@NetBSD.org (the NetBSD/pc532 portmaster), to provide sufficient disk space for complete builds and tests of NetBSD on the pc532. [19990511] Brad Salai bsalai@servtech.com shipped a SPARC 1+ with either a little or no memory to Steven Grunza steven.grunza@dgms.com to help with work on sysinst and other projects for NetBSD/sparc. [19990509] David Brownlee abs@NetBSD.org shipped a couple of 8 bit NI5210/8 to jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU, and Rafal Boni (rafal at mediaone dot net), who are looking to work on a driver [19990423] David Brownlee abs@NetBSD.org shipped a sun 3/80 motherboard with 4MB RAM to Alex Barclay alex@vsys.com to help with his cache work on NetBSD/sun3. [19990422] David also shipped a Sun 3/260 chassis to Jeremy Cooper jeremy@NetBSD.org to help with his work supporting the remaining member of the sun3x family, the 3/470. [19991219] Jordan K. Hubbard shipped a PC532 to the build lab. People have been contributing hardware to NetBSD developers since the start of the project in 1993. Many people prefer not to be listed, and the details of many others were not recorded (If anyone wishes to send details of their donation, we would be very happy to include them). We would like to take this oportunity to thank everyone who has contributed hardware, time, and effort to the NetBSD project. Without you all we would not be here at all!.