NetBSD/share/man/man8/man8.pmax/MAKEDEV.8

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.Dd December 28, 1995
.Dt MAKEDEV 8 pmax
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm MAKEDEV
.Nd create system and device special files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar special Op Ar ...

.Nm
.Ar device Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is used to create system and device special files.
As arguments it takes the names of known devices, like
.Ar sd0 ,
or of special targets, like
.Pa all
or
.Pa std ,
which create a collection of device special files.
.Pp
The script is in
.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
and must be called from the
.Pa /dev
directory.
.Pp
The special targets supported on
.Nx Ns / Ns pmax
are:
.Pp
.\" @@@SPECIAL@@@
.Bl -tag -width 01234567 -compact
.It Ar all
All known devices, including local devices.
.It Ar minimal
A minimal set of devices for install disks, etc.
.It Ar std
Standard devices
.It Ar local
Configuration specific devices
.El
.Pp
Please note that any hash marks
.Pq Dq #
in the following list of supported device targets must be replaced by
digits when calling
.Nm "" :
.Pp
.\" @@@DEVICES@@@
.Bl -tag -width 01
.It Tapes:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar tz#
SCSI tapes, DEC TK50 cartridge tape, see
.Xr t\&z 4
. It Ar st#
MI SCSI tape drives, see
.Xr s\&t 4
. El
.It Disks:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar rz#
SCSI disks, see
.Xr r\&z 4
. It Ar ccd#
Concatenated disk driver, see
.Xr c\&cd 4
. It Ar cd#
MI SCSI cdroms, see
.Xr c\&d 4
. It Ar md#
Memory pseudo-disk devices, see
.Xr m\&d 4
. It Ar raid#
RAIDframe disk driver, see
.Xr r\&aid 4
. It Ar sd#
MI SCSI disks, see
.Xr s\&d 4
. It Ar vnd#
``file'' pseudo-disks, see
.Xr v\&nd 4
. El
.It Terminal multiplexors:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar dc#
4 channel serial interface (keyboard, mouse, modem, printer), see
.Xr d\&c 4
. It Ar scc#
82530 serial interface, see
.Xr s\&cc 4
. El
.It Pseudo terminals:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar pty#
Set of 16 master and slave pseudo terminals, see
.Xr p\&ty 4
. El
.It Special purpose devices:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar audio#
Phone-quality audio on Personal DECstations, see
.Xr a\&udio 4
. It Ar bpf#
Packet filter, see
.Xr b\&pf 4
. It Ar ch#
SCSI media changer, see
.Xr c\&h 4
. It Ar fd
File descriptors (/dev/fd/*)
. It Ar ipl
IP packet filter
. It Ar lkm
Loadable kernel modules interface (unsupported in 1.3_ALPHA), see
.Xr l\&km 4
. It Ar random
Random number generator
. It Ar scsibus#
SCSI busses, see
.Xr s\&csictl 8 ,
.Xr s\&csi 4
. It Ar ss#
MI scsi scanners, see
.Xr s\&s 4
. It Ar tun#
Network tunnel driver, see
.Xr t\&un 4
. It Ar uk#
MI unknown scsi devices, see
.Xr u\&k 4
. El
.It Platform-specific devices:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar NOTE:
/dev/mouse should be a link to one of these for X windows.
. It Ar fb#
Generic framebuffer pseudo-device
. It Ar px#
PixelStamp Xserver access, see
.Xr p\&x 4
. El
.It The following names are reserved for future use:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar fdc#
Baseboard 2.88 floppy disk on Personal DECstations
. It Ar ttyE?
Workstation console (``wscons'') glass-tty emulators
. El
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/dev/MAKEDEV" -compact
.It Pa /dev
special device files directory
.It Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
script described in this man page
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr config 8 ,
.Xr mknod 8
.Sh BUGS
This man page is generated automatically from the same sources
as
.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV ,
in which the device files are not always sorted, which may result
in an unusual (non-alphabetical) order.