Ah you were the person on twitter... All three main BSD projects could use hardware - all three support edgerouter lite3 but I think only FreeBSD has more useful hardware. Most of the NetBSD dev is on really old hardware. I am a NetBSD developer, can provide contact (email in profile).
Qemu is pretty annoying for development - it tends to emulate obsolete hardware and it is the drivers that takes time; we already have general architecture support, it is real hardware that is useful. Also qemu is not generally bug for bug compatible and it is slow. It is ok if you are paying someone, but giving away hardware is better to incentivize people who are doing something for free.
Qemu is pretty annoying for development - it tends to emulate obsolete hardware and it is the drivers that takes time; we already have general architecture support, it is real hardware that is useful. Also qemu is not generally bug for bug compatible and it is slow. It is ok if you are paying someone, but giving away hardware is better to incentivize people who are doing something for free.