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.\"	@(#)MAKEDEV.8	5.2 (Berkeley) 3/22/91
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.Dd April 3, 1999
.Dt MAKEDEV 8 alpha
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm MAKEDEV ,
.Nm makedev
.Nd create system and device special files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm MAKEDEV
.Ar name
.Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The shell script
.Nm MAKEDEV ,
found in the
.Pa /dev
directory, is used to create
the common special
files.
.\" See
.\" .Xr special 8
.\" for a more complete discussion of special files.
.Pp
.Nm MAKEDEV
takes any number of device names as arguments,
where the names are the common abbreviation for
the device.
.Pp
The
.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
.Nm
script supports the following special names.
.Pp
.\" @@@SPECIAL@@@
.Bl -tag -width 01234567 -compact
.It Ar all
Makes all known devices, including local devices. If units are expected for a device
.Pa MAKEDEV
supplies the standard numbers.
.It Ar minimal
A minimal set of devices for install disks, etc.
.It Ar std
The standard devices (console, drum, klog, kmem, mem, null, stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero).
.It Ar local
Configuration specific devices which are created by running the
.Pa MAKEDEV.local
shell script with the argument ``all''.
.It Ar usbs
All USB devices. If units are expected for a device
.Pa MAKEDEV
supplies the standard numbers.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
.Nm
script supports the following device names.
Where a device name is followed by a hash
sign
.Pq Dq # ,
the hash sign must be replaced
by a unit number.
.Pp
.\" @@@DEVICES@@@
.Bl -tag -width 01
.It Tapes:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar st#
SCSI tape, see
.Xr st 4 
. El
.It Disks:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar ca#
Compaq array, see
.Xr ca 4 
. It Ar ccd#
Concatenated disk driver, see
.Xr ccd 4 
. It Ar cd#
SCSI CD-ROM, see
.Xr cd 4 
. It Ar md#
Memory pseudo-disk devices, see
.Xr md 4 
. It Ar raid#
RAIDframe disk driver, see
.Xr raid 4 
. It Ar sd#
ATAPI and SCSI disks, see
.Xr sd 4 
. It Ar vnd#
File pseudo-disks, see
.Xr vnd 4 
. It Ar wd#
IDE disks, see
.Xr wd 4 
. It Ar fd#
PC-style floppy disks
. El
.It Terminals:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar ttyB?
DEC 3000 ZS8530 (``scc'') serial ports
. It Ar ttyC?
AlphaStation NS16550 (``com'') serial ports
. It Ar ttyE?
Workstation console (``wscons'') glass-tty emulators
. It Ar ttyCZ?
Cyclades-Z multiport serial boards. Each ``unit'' makes 64 ports.
. El
.It Pseudo terminals:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar pty#
Set of 16 master and slave pseudo terminals, see
.Xr pty 4 
. El
.It Printers:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar lpt#
PC parallel port driver (``lpt'') units
. It Ar lpa#
Polled PC parallel port driver (``lpt'') units
. El
.It USB devices:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar usb#
Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see
.Xr usb 4 
. It Ar uhid#
Generic HID devices, see
.Xr uhid 4 
. It Ar ulpt#
Printer devices, see
.Xr ulpt 4 
. It Ar ugen#
Generic devices, see
.Xr ugen 4 
. It Ar ttyU#
Modem
. El
.It Special purpose devices:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar audio#
Audio devices, see
.Xr audio 4 
. It Ar bpf#
Berkeley packet filter devices, see
.Xr bpf 4 
. It Ar ch#
SCSI media changer, see
.Xr ch 4 
. It Ar fd
File descriptors (/dev/fd/*)
. It Ar ipl
IP filter
. It Ar kbd
Keyboard (provides events, for X11)
. It Ar lkm
Loadable kernel modules interface, see
.Xr lkm 4 
. It Ar mouse
Mouse (provides events, for X11)
. It Ar random
Random number generator
. It Ar satlink#
PlanetConnect satellite receiver driver
. It Ar scsibus#
SCSI busses, see
.Xr scsictl 8 ,
.Xr scsi 8 
. It Ar ses#
SES/SAF-TE SCSI Devices
. It Ar speaker
PC speaker (IBM BASIC playstring emulation), see
.Xr speaker 4 
. It Ar ss#
SCSI scanner, see
.Xr ss 4 
. It Ar tun#
Network tunnel driver, see
.Xr tun 4 
. It Ar uk#
SCSI unknown, see
.Xr uk 4 
. El
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact
.It Pa /dev
The special file directory.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr config 8 ,
.Xr mknod 8
.\" .Xr special 8
.Sh BUGS
This manual page was created from the list at the top of the
.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
shell script.  That script's comments may be incorrect, and
this manual page must be kept in sync with them, so it may be
even more incorrect.  At the very least, the ordering of device
names in that file seems almost random.