1.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.98 2024/09/04 13:45:25 jsg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" THIS FILE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. 4.\" generated from: 5.\" 6.\" OpenBSD: etc.amd64/MAKEDEV.md,v 1.83 2024/09/03 09:35:46 bluhm Exp 7.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.common,v 1.121 2024/09/03 09:35:46 bluhm Exp 8.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.man,v 1.9 2017/06/06 08:11:23 tb 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 2024 $ 27.Dt MAKEDEV 8 amd64 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. 48Files are created in the current working directory. 49.Pp 50Where a device name is followed by a star 51.Sq * , 52the star must be replaced by a unit number. 53If units are expected for a device but not provided, 54.Nm 55will supply the standard numbers in most cases. 56.Pp 57The amd64 supports the following devices: 58.Pp 59.Sy Special device names 60.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 61.It Ar all 62Creates special files for all devices on amd64. 63.It Ar ramdisk 64Ramdisk kernel devices. 65.It Ar std 66Creates the 67.Sq standard 68devices (console, klog, kmem, ksyms, mem, null, 69stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) 70which are absolutely necessary for the system to function properly. 71.It Ar local 72Creates configuration-specific devices, by invoking the shell file 73.Pa MAKEDEV.local . 74.El 75.Pp 76.Sy Disks 77.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 78.It Ar cd* 79ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see 80.Xr cd 4 . 81.It Ar fd* 82Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see 83.Xr fd 4 . 84.It Ar rd* 85.Dq rd 86pseudo-disks, see 87.Xr rd 4 . 88.It Ar sd* 89SCSI disks, including flopticals, see 90.Xr sd 4 . 91.It Ar vnd* 92.Dq file 93pseudo-disk devices, see 94.Xr vnd 4 . 95.It Ar wd* 96.Dq winchester 97disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see 98.Xr wd 4 . 99.El 100.Pp 101.Sy Tapes 102.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 103.It Ar ch* 104SCSI media changers, see 105.Xr ch 4 . 106.It Ar st* 107SCSI tape drives, see 108.Xr st 4 . 109.El 110.Pp 111.Sy Terminal ports 112.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 113.It Ar tty[0-7][0-9a-f] 114NS16x50 serial ports, see 115.Xr com 4 . 116.It Ar ttyc* 117Cyclades serial ports, see 118.Xr cy 4 . 119.It Ar ttyVI* 120Virtio serial ports, see 121.Xr viocon 4 . 122.El 123.Pp 124.Sy Pseudo terminals 125.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 126.It Ar ptm 127pty master device, see 128.Xr ptm 4 . 129.It Ar pty* 130Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see 131.Xr pty 4 . 132.It Ar tty* 133Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see 134.Xr tty 4 . 135.El 136.Pp 137.Sy Console ports 138.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 139.It Ar ttyC-J* 140wscons display devices, see 141.Xr wsdisplay 4 . 142.It Ar wscons 143Minimal wscons devices, see 144.Xr wscons 4 . 145.It Ar wskbd* 146wscons keyboards, see 147.Xr wskbd 4 . 148.It Ar wsmux 149wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see 150.Xr wsmux 4 . 151.El 152.Pp 153.Sy Pointing devices 154.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 155.It Ar wsmouse* 156wscons mice, see 157.Xr wsmouse 4 . 158.El 159.Pp 160.Sy Printers 161.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 162.It Ar lpa* 163Polled printer port, see 164.Xr lpt 4 . 165.It Ar lpt* 166IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see 167.Xr lpt 4 . 168.El 169.Pp 170.Sy USB devices 171.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 172.It Ar ttyU* 173USB serial ports, see 174.Xr ucom 4 . 175.It Ar uall 176All USB devices, see 177.Xr usb 4 . 178.It Ar ugen* 179Generic USB devices, see 180.Xr ugen 4 . 181.It Ar uhid* 182Generic HID devices, see 183.Xr uhid 4 . 184.It Ar fido 185fido/* nodes, see 186.Xr fido 4 . 187.It Ar ujoy 188ujoy/* nodes, see 189.Xr ujoy 4 . 190.It Ar ulpt* 191Printer devices, see 192.Xr ulpt 4 . 193.It Ar usb* 194Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see 195.Xr usb 4 . 196.El 197.Pp 198.Sy Special purpose devices 199.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact 200.It Ar apm 201Power Management Interface, see 202.Xr apm 4 . 203.It Ar audio* 204Audio devices, see 205.Xr audio 4 . 206.It Ar bio 207ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see 208.Xr bio 4 . 209.It Ar bktr* 210Video frame grabbers, see 211.Xr bktr 4 . 212.It Ar bpf 213Berkeley Packet Filter, see 214.Xr bpf 4 . 215.It Ar dt 216Dynamic Tracer, see 217.Xr dt 4 . 218.It Ar diskmap 219Disk mapper, see 220.Xr diskmap 4 . 221.It Ar dri 222Direct Rendering Infrastructure, see 223.Xr drm 4 . 224.It Ar efi 225EFI runtime services, see 226.Xr efi 4 . 227.It Ar fd 228fd/* nodes, see 229.Xr fd 4 . 230.It Ar fuse 231Userland Filesystem, see 232.Xr fuse 4 . 233.It Ar gpio* 234General Purpose Input/Output, see 235.Xr gpio 4 . 236.It Ar hotplug 237devices hot plugging, see 238.Xr hotplug 4 . 239.It Ar ipmi* 240IPMI BMC access, see 241.Xr ipmi 4 . 242.It Ar nvram 243NVRAM access, see 244.Xr nvram 4 . 245.It Ar kcov 246Kernel code coverage tracing, see 247.Xr kcov 4 . 248.It Ar pci* 249PCI bus devices, see 250.Xr pci 4 . 251.It Ar pctr* 252PC Performance Tuning Register access device, see 253.Xr pctr 4 . 254.It Ar pf 255Packet Filter, see 256.Xr pf 4 . 257.It Ar pppx* 258PPP Multiplexer, see 259.Xr pppx 4 . 260.It Ar pppac* 261PPP Access Concentrator, see 262.Xr pppac 4 . 263.It Ar radio* 264FM tuner devices, see 265.Xr radio 4 . 266.It Ar *random 267In-kernel random data source, see 268.Xr random 4 . 269.It Ar rmidi* 270Raw MIDI devices, see 271.Xr midi 4 . 272.It Ar speaker 273PC speaker, see 274.Xr spkr 4 . 275.It Ar tun* 276Network tunnel driver, see 277.Xr tun 4 . 278.It Ar tap* 279Ethernet tunnel driver, see 280.Xr tap 4 . 281.It Ar tuner* 282Tuner devices, see 283.Xr bktr 4 . 284.It Ar uk* 285Unknown SCSI devices, see 286.Xr uk 4 . 287.It Ar video* 288Video V4L2 devices, see 289.Xr video 4 . 290.It Ar vmm 291Virtual Machine Monitor, see 292.Xr vmm 4 . 293.It Ar vscsi* 294Virtual SCSI controller, see 295.Xr vscsi 4 . 296.It Ar pvbus* 297paravirtual device tree root, see 298.Xr pvbus 4 . 299.It Ar kstat 300Kernel Statistics, see 301.Xr kstat 4 . 302.It Ar psp 303Platform Security Processor, see 304.Xr psp 4 . 305.El 306.Sh FILES 307.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact 308.It Pa /dev 309The special file directory. 310.El 311.Sh SEE ALSO 312.Xr intro 4 , 313.Xr config 8 , 314.Xr mknod 8 315