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.Dd July 23, 1997
.Dt MAKEDEV 8 x68k
.Sh NAME
.Nm MAKEDEV ,
.Nm makedev
.Nd create system and device special files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm MAKEDEV
.Ar device_name 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.
There are several special devices:
.Pp
.\" @@@SPECIAL@@@
.Bl -tag -width 01234567 -compact
.It Ar all
Makes all known devices, including local devices, Tries to make the ``standard'' number of each.
.It Ar floppy
Devices to be put on install floppies
.It Ar fd
Makes fd/* for the fdescfs.
.It Ar std
Standard devices
.It Ar local
Configuration specific devices
.El
.Pp
The
.Tn x68k
supports the following devices.
Where a device name is followed by a hash sign
.Ql \&# ,
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 tapes, see
.Xr st 4
. El
.It Disks:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar fd#
Floppy disks
. It Ar sd#
SCSI disks, includes flopticals, see
.Xr sd 4
. It Ar cd#
SCSI cdrom discs, see
.Xr cd 4
. It Ar vnd#
``file'' pseudo-disks, see
.Xr vnd 4
. It Ar ccd#
Concatenated disk driver, see
.Xr ccd 4
. It Ar raid#
RAIDframe disk driver, see
.Xr raid 4
. It Ar md#
Memory pseudo-disk devices, see
.Xr md 4
. El
.It Console ports:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar ttye#
Ite bitmapped consoles
. El
.It Pointing devices:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar mouse#
Serial mouse
. El
.It Terminal ports:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar tty#
Standard serial port, see
.Xr tty 4
. It Ar com#
PSX16550 serial board
. 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 par#
Motherboard parallel port
. El
.It Special purpose devices:
. Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
. It Ar grf#
Builtin video
. It Ar kbd
Keyboard
. It Ar aconf
Autoconfig information (not yet)
. It Ar lkm
Loadable kernel modules interface, see
.Xr lkm 4
. It Ar bpf#
Berkeley Packet Filter, see
.Xr bpf 4
. It Ar ipl
IP filter
. It Ar random
Random number generator
. It Ar audio
Audio device, see
.Xr audio 4
. It Ar sram
Battery backuped memory
. It Ar tun#
Network tunnel driver, see
.Xr tun 4
. It Ar pow#
Power management device, see
.Xr pow 4
. It Ar bell#
OPM bell device
. It Ar ch#
SCSI changer device, see
.Xr ch 4
. It Ar uk#
SCSI unknown device, see
.Xr uk 4
. It Ar ss#
SCSI scanner device, see
.Xr ss 4
. It Ar scsibus#
SCSI busses, see
.Xr scsictl 8 ,
.Xr scsi 4
. El
.El
.Pp
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
.It Pa /dev
The special file directory.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mknod 1 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr config 8
.\".Xr special 8