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26.Dd $Mdocdate: June 26 2011 $
27.Dt MAKEDEV 8 luna88k
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 luna88k 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 luna88k.
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 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.El
95.Pp
96.Sy Tapes
97.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
98.It Ar ch*
99SCSI media changers, see
100.Xr ch 4 .
101.It Ar st*
102SCSI tape drives, see
103.Xr st 4 .
104.El
105.Pp
106.Sy Terminal ports
107.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
108.It Ar ttya
109On-board serial console port, see
110.Xr sio 4 .
111.El
112.Pp
113.Sy Pseudo terminals
114.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
115.It Ar ptm
116pty master device, see
117.Xr ptm 4 .
118.It Ar pty*
119Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see
120.Xr pty 4 .
121.It Ar tty*
122Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see
123.Xr tty 4 .
124.El
125.Pp
126.Sy Console ports
127.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
128.It Ar ttyC-J*
129wscons display devices, see
130.Xr wsdisplay 4 .
131.It Ar wscons
132Minimal wscons devices, see
133.Xr wscons 4 .
134.It Ar wskbd*
135wscons keyboards, see
136.Xr wskbd 4 .
137.It Ar wsmux
138wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see
139.Xr wsmux 4 .
140.El
141.Pp
142.Sy Pointing devices
143.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
144.It Ar wsmouse*
145wscons mice, see
146.Xr wsmouse 4 .
147.El
148.Pp
149.Sy Special purpose devices
150.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
151.It Ar bio
152ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see
153.Xr bio 4 .
154.It Ar bpf*
155Berkeley Packet Filter, see
156.Xr bpf 4 .
157.It Ar diskmap
158Disk mapper, see
159.Xr diskmap 4 .
160.It Ar fd
161fd/* nodes, see
162.Xr fd 4 .
163.It Ar lcd
164front panel LCD display, see
165.Xr lcd 4 .
166.It Ar lkm
167Loadable kernel modules interface, see
168.Xr lkm 4 .
169.It Ar nnpfs*
170NNPFS filesystem node, see
171.Xr mount_nnpfs 8 .
172.It Ar pf*
173Packet Filter, see
174.Xr pf 4 .
175.It Ar pppx*
176PPP Multiplexer, see
177.Xr pppx 4 .
178.It Ar *random
179In-kernel random data source, see
180.Xr random 4 .
181.It Ar systrace*
182System call tracing device, see
183.Xr systrace 4 .
184.It Ar tun*
185Network tunnel driver, see
186.Xr tun 4 .
187.It Ar uk*
188Unknown SCSI devices, see
189.Xr uk 4 .
190.It Ar vscsi*
191Virtual SCSI controller, see
192.Xr vscsi 8 .
193.El
194.Sh FILES
195.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact
196.It Pa /dev
197The special file directory.
198.El
199.Sh SEE ALSO
200.Xr intro 4 ,
201.Xr config 8 ,
202.Xr mknod 8
203