1.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.50 2010/11/19 20:56:07 miod Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" THIS FILE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. 4.\" generated from: 5.\" 6.\" OpenBSD: etc.alpha/MAKEDEV.md,v 1.51 2010/11/19 20:55:46 miod Exp 7.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.common,v 1.53 2010/09/30 15:27:54 claudio Exp 8.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.man,v 1.7 2009/03/18 17:34:25 sobrado Exp 9.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.mansub,v 1.2 2004/02/20 19:13:01 miod Exp 10.\" 11.\" Copyright (c) 2004, Miodrag Vallat 12.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org> 13.\" 14.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 15.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 16.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 17.\" 18.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 19.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 20.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 21.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 22.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 23.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 24.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 25.\" 26.Dd $Mdocdate: November 19 2010 $ 27.Dt MAKEDEV 8 alpha 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm MAKEDEV 31.Nd create system and device special files 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Nm MAKEDEV 34.Ar name ... 35.Sh DESCRIPTION 36The shell script 37.Nm , 38found in the 39.Pa /dev 40directory, is used to create various special files. 41See 42.Xr intro 4 43for a more complete discussion of special files. 44.Pp 45.Nm 46takes any number of device names as arguments, where the names are 47the common abbreviation for the device or group of devices. 48.Pp 49Where a device name is followed by a star 50.Sq * , 51the star must be replaced by a unit number. 52If units are expected for a device but not provided, 53.Nm 54will supply the standard numbers in most cases. 55.Pp 56The alpha supports the following devices: 57.Pp 58.Sy Special device names 59.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 60.It Ar all 61Creates special files for all devices on alpha. 62.It Ar ramdisk 63Ramdisk kernel devices. 64.It Ar std 65Creates the 66.Sq standard 67devices (console, klog, kmem, ksyms, mem, null, 68stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) 69which are absolutely necessary for the system to function properly. 70.It Ar local 71Creates configuration-specific devices, by invoking the shell file 72.Pa MAKEDEV.local . 73.El 74.Pp 75.Sy Disks 76.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 77.It Ar ccd* 78Concatenated disk devices, see 79.Xr ccd 4 . 80.It Ar cd* 81ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see 82.Xr cd 4 . 83.It Ar fd* 84Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see 85.Xr fd 4 . 86.It Ar raid* 87RAIDframe disk devices, see 88.Xr raid 4 . 89.It Ar rd* 90.Dq rd 91pseudo-disks, see 92.Xr rd 4 . 93.It Ar sd* 94SCSI disks, including flopticals, see 95.Xr sd 4 . 96.It Ar vnd* 97.Dq file 98pseudo-disk devices, see 99.Xr vnd 4 . 100.It Ar wd* 101.Dq winchester 102disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see 103.Xr wd 4 . 104.El 105.Pp 106.Sy Tapes 107.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 108.It Ar ch* 109SCSI media changers, see 110.Xr ch 4 . 111.It Ar st* 112SCSI tape drives, see 113.Xr st 4 . 114.El 115.Pp 116.Sy Terminal ports 117.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 118.It Ar tty[0-7][0-9a-f] 119NS16x50 serial ports, see 120.Xr com 4 . 121.It Ar ttyB? 122DEC 3000 ZS8530 ("scc") serial ports, see 123.Xr scc 4 . 124.It Ar ttyc* 125Cyclades serial ports, see 126.Xr cy 4 . 127.El 128.Pp 129.Sy Pseudo terminals 130.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 131.It Ar ptm 132pty master device, see 133.Xr ptm 4 . 134.It Ar pty* 135Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see 136.Xr pty 4 . 137.It Ar tty* 138Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see 139.Xr tty 4 . 140.El 141.Pp 142.Sy Console ports 143.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 144.It Ar ttyC-J* 145wscons display devices, see 146.Xr wsdisplay 4 . 147.It Ar wscons 148Minimal wscons devices, see 149.Xr wscons 4 . 150.It Ar wskbd* 151wscons keyboards, see 152.Xr wskbd 4 . 153.It Ar wsmux 154wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see 155.Xr wsmux 4 . 156.El 157.Pp 158.Sy Pointing devices 159.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 160.It Ar wsmouse* 161wscons mice, see 162.Xr wsmouse 4 . 163.El 164.Pp 165.Sy Printers 166.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 167.It Ar lpa* 168Polled printer port, see 169.Xr lpt 4 . 170.It Ar lpt* 171IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see 172.Xr lpt 4 . 173.El 174.Pp 175.Sy USB devices 176.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 177.It Ar ttyU* 178USB serial ports, see 179.Xr ucom 4 . 180.It Ar uall 181All USB devices, see 182.Xr usb 4 . 183.It Ar ugen* 184Generic USB devices, see 185.Xr ugen 4 . 186.It Ar uhid* 187Generic HID devices, see 188.Xr uhid 4 . 189.It Ar ulpt* 190Printer devices, see 191.Xr ulpt 4 . 192.It Ar urio* 193Diamond Multimedia Rio 500, see 194.Xr urio 4 . 195.It Ar usb* 196Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see 197.Xr usb 4 . 198.It Ar uscanner* 199Scanners, see 200.Xr uscanner 4 . 201.El 202.Pp 203.Sy Special purpose devices 204.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 205.It Ar audio* 206Audio devices, see 207.Xr audio 4 . 208.It Ar bio 209ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see 210.Xr bio 4 . 211.It Ar bktr* 212Video frame grabbers, see 213.Xr bktr 4 . 214.It Ar bpf* 215Berkeley Packet Filter, see 216.Xr bpf 4 . 217.It Ar bthub* 218Bluetooth Hubs, see 219.Xr bthub 4 . 220.It Ar crypto 221Hardware crypto access driver, see 222.Xr crypto 4 . 223.It Ar diskmap 224Disk mapper, see 225.Xr diskmap 4 . 226.It Ar fd 227fd/* nodes, see 228.Xr fd 4 . 229.It Ar hotplug 230devices hot plugging, see 231.Xr hotplug 4 . 232.It Ar iop* 233I2O controller devices, see 234.Xr iop 4 . 235.It Ar lkm 236Loadable kernel modules interface, see 237.Xr lkm 4 . 238.It Ar music* 239MIDI sequencer, see 240.Xr music 4 . 241.It Ar nnpfs* 242NNPFS filesystem node, see 243.Xr mount_nnpfs 8 . 244.It Ar pci* 245PCI bus devices, see 246.Xr pci 4 . 247.It Ar pf* 248Packet Filter, see 249.Xr pf 4 . 250.It Ar pppx* 251PPP Multiplexer, see 252.Xr pppx 4 . 253.It Ar radio* 254FM tuner devices, see 255.Xr radio 4 . 256.It Ar *random 257In-kernel random data source, see 258.Xr random 4 . 259.It Ar rmidi* 260Raw MIDI devices, see 261.Xr midi 4 . 262.It Ar speaker 263PC speaker, see 264.Xr spkr 4 . 265.It Ar systrace* 266System call tracing device, see 267.Xr systrace 4 . 268.It Ar tun* 269Network tunnel driver, see 270.Xr tun 4 . 271.It Ar tuner* 272Tuner devices, see 273.Xr bktr 4 . 274.It Ar uk* 275Unknown SCSI devices, see 276.Xr uk 4 . 277.It Ar video* 278Video V4L2 devices, see 279.Xr video 4 . 280.It Ar vscsi* 281Virtual SCSI controller, see 282.Xr vscsi 8 . 283.El 284.Sh FILES 285.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact 286.It Pa /dev 287The special file directory. 288.El 289.Sh SEE ALSO 290.Xr intro 4 , 291.Xr config 8 , 292.Xr mknod 8 293