1.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.73 2016/09/04 15:39:53 naddy Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" THIS FILE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. 4.\" generated from: 5.\" 6.\" OpenBSD: etc.alpha/MAKEDEV.md,v 1.69 2016/09/04 15:38:59 naddy Exp 7.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.common,v 1.91 2016/09/04 15:38:59 naddy Exp 8.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.man,v 1.8 2016/03/12 17:59:27 espie 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: September 4 2016 $ 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.Op 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 cd* 78ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see 79.Xr cd 4 . 80.It Ar fd* 81Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see 82.Xr fd 4 . 83.It Ar rd* 84.Dq rd 85pseudo-disks, see 86.Xr rd 4 . 87.It Ar sd* 88SCSI disks, including flopticals, see 89.Xr sd 4 . 90.It Ar vnd* 91.Dq file 92pseudo-disk devices, see 93.Xr vnd 4 . 94.It Ar wd* 95.Dq winchester 96disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see 97.Xr wd 4 . 98.El 99.Pp 100.Sy Tapes 101.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 102.It Ar ch* 103SCSI media changers, see 104.Xr ch 4 . 105.It Ar st* 106SCSI tape drives, see 107.Xr st 4 . 108.El 109.Pp 110.Sy Terminal ports 111.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 112.It Ar tty[0-7][0-9a-f] 113NS16x50 serial ports, see 114.Xr com 4 . 115.It Ar ttyB? 116DEC 3000 ZS8530 ("scc") serial ports, see 117.Xr scc 4 . 118.It Ar ttyc* 119Cyclades serial ports, see 120.Xr cy 4 . 121.El 122.Pp 123.Sy Pseudo terminals 124.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 125.It Ar ptm 126pty master device, see 127.Xr ptm 4 . 128.It Ar pty* 129Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see 130.Xr pty 4 . 131.It Ar tty* 132Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see 133.Xr tty 4 . 134.El 135.Pp 136.Sy Console ports 137.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 138.It Ar ttyC-J* 139wscons display devices, see 140.Xr wsdisplay 4 . 141.It Ar wscons 142Minimal wscons devices, see 143.Xr wscons 4 . 144.It Ar wskbd* 145wscons keyboards, see 146.Xr wskbd 4 . 147.It Ar wsmux 148wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see 149.Xr wsmux 4 . 150.El 151.Pp 152.Sy Pointing devices 153.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 154.It Ar wsmouse* 155wscons mice, see 156.Xr wsmouse 4 . 157.El 158.Pp 159.Sy Printers 160.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 161.It Ar lpa* 162Polled printer port, see 163.Xr lpt 4 . 164.It Ar lpt* 165IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see 166.Xr lpt 4 . 167.El 168.Pp 169.Sy USB devices 170.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 171.It Ar ttyU* 172USB serial ports, see 173.Xr ucom 4 . 174.It Ar uall 175All USB devices, see 176.Xr usb 4 . 177.It Ar ugen* 178Generic USB devices, see 179.Xr ugen 4 . 180.It Ar uhid* 181Generic HID devices, see 182.Xr uhid 4 . 183.It Ar ulpt* 184Printer devices, see 185.Xr ulpt 4 . 186.It Ar usb* 187Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see 188.Xr usb 4 . 189.El 190.Pp 191.Sy Special purpose devices 192.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 193.It Ar audio* 194Audio devices, see 195.Xr audio 4 . 196.It Ar bio 197ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see 198.Xr bio 4 . 199.It Ar bktr* 200Video frame grabbers, see 201.Xr bktr 4 . 202.It Ar bpf 203Berkeley Packet Filter, see 204.Xr bpf 4 . 205.It Ar diskmap 206Disk mapper, see 207.Xr diskmap 4 . 208.It Ar fd 209fd/* nodes, see 210.Xr fd 4 . 211.It Ar fuse 212Userland Filesystem, see 213.Xr fuse 4 . 214.It Ar hotplug 215devices hot plugging, see 216.Xr hotplug 4 . 217.It Ar pci* 218PCI bus devices, see 219.Xr pci 4 . 220.It Ar pf* 221Packet Filter, see 222.Xr pf 4 . 223.It Ar pppx* 224PPP Multiplexer, see 225.Xr pppx 4 . 226.It Ar radio* 227FM tuner devices, see 228.Xr radio 4 . 229.It Ar *random 230In-kernel random data source, see 231.Xr random 4 . 232.It Ar rmidi* 233Raw MIDI devices, see 234.Xr midi 4 . 235.It Ar speaker 236PC speaker, see 237.Xr spkr 4 . 238.It Ar tun* 239Network tunnel driver, see 240.Xr tun 4 . 241.It Ar tap* 242Ethernet tunnel driver, see 243.Xr tap 4 . 244.It Ar tuner* 245Tuner devices, see 246.Xr bktr 4 . 247.It Ar uk* 248Unknown SCSI devices, see 249.Xr uk 4 . 250.It Ar video* 251Video V4L2 devices, see 252.Xr video 4 . 253.It Ar vscsi* 254Virtual SCSI controller, see 255.Xr vscsi 4 . 256.It Ar switch* 257Switch driver, see 258.Xr switch 4 . 259.El 260.Sh FILES 261.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact 262.It Pa /dev 263The special file directory. 264.El 265.Sh SEE ALSO 266.Xr intro 4 , 267.Xr config 8 , 268.Xr mknod 8 269