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26.Dd $Mdocdate: September 4 2016 $
27.Dt MAKEDEV 8 i386
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.
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 i386 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 i386.
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 cd*
78ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see
79.Xr cd 4 .
80.It Ar fd*
81Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see
82.Xr fd 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.It Ar wd*
95.Dq winchester
96disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see
97.Xr wd 4 .
98.El
99.Pp
100.Sy Tapes
101.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
102.It Ar ch*
103SCSI media changers, see
104.Xr ch 4 .
105.It Ar st*
106SCSI tape drives, see
107.Xr st 4 .
108.El
109.Pp
110.Sy Terminal ports
111.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
112.It Ar tty[0-7][0-9a-f]
113NS16x50 serial ports, see
114.Xr com 4 .
115.It Ar ttyc*
116Cyclades serial ports, see
117.Xr cy 4 .
118.El
119.Pp
120.Sy Pseudo terminals
121.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
122.It Ar ptm
123pty master device, see
124.Xr ptm 4 .
125.It Ar pty*
126Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see
127.Xr pty 4 .
128.It Ar tty*
129Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see
130.Xr tty 4 .
131.El
132.Pp
133.Sy Console ports
134.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
135.It Ar ttyC-J*
136wscons display devices, see
137.Xr wsdisplay 4 .
138.It Ar wscons
139Minimal wscons devices, see
140.Xr wscons 4 .
141.It Ar wskbd*
142wscons keyboards, see
143.Xr wskbd 4 .
144.It Ar wsmux
145wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see
146.Xr wsmux 4 .
147.El
148.Pp
149.Sy Pointing devices
150.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
151.It Ar wsmouse*
152wscons mice, see
153.Xr wsmouse 4 .
154.El
155.Pp
156.Sy Printers
157.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
158.It Ar lpa*
159Polled printer port, see
160.Xr lpt 4 .
161.It Ar lpt*
162IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see
163.Xr lpt 4 .
164.El
165.Pp
166.Sy USB devices
167.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
168.It Ar ttyU*
169USB serial ports, see
170.Xr ucom 4 .
171.It Ar uall
172All USB devices, see
173.Xr usb 4 .
174.It Ar ugen*
175Generic USB devices, see
176.Xr ugen 4 .
177.It Ar uhid*
178Generic HID devices, see
179.Xr uhid 4 .
180.It Ar ulpt*
181Printer devices, see
182.Xr ulpt 4 .
183.It Ar usb*
184Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see
185.Xr usb 4 .
186.El
187.Pp
188.Sy Special purpose devices
189.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
190.It Ar amdmsr
191AMD MSR access device, see
192.Xr amdmsr 4 .
193.It Ar apm
194Power management device, see
195.Xr apm 4 .
196.It Ar audio*
197Audio devices, see
198.Xr audio 4 .
199.It Ar bio
200ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see
201.Xr bio 4 .
202.It Ar bktr*
203Video frame grabbers, see
204.Xr bktr 4 .
205.It Ar bpf
206Berkeley Packet Filter, see
207.Xr bpf 4 .
208.It Ar diskmap
209Disk mapper, see
210.Xr diskmap 4 .
211.It Ar drm*
212Direct Rendering Manager, see
213.Xr drm 4 .
214.It Ar fd
215fd/* nodes, see
216.Xr fd 4 .
217.It Ar fuse
218Userland Filesystem, see
219.Xr fuse 4 .
220.It Ar gpio*
221General Purpose Input/Output, see
222.Xr gpio 4 .
223.It Ar gpr*
224GPR400 smartcard reader, see
225.Xr gpr 4 .
226.It Ar hotplug
227devices hot plugging, see
228.Xr hotplug 4 .
229.It Ar ipmi*
230IPMI BMC access, see
231.Xr ipmi 4 .
232.It Ar joy*
233Joystick driver, see
234.Xr joy 4 .
235.It Ar nvram
236NVRAM access, see
237.Xr nvram 4 .
238.It Ar pci*
239PCI bus devices, see
240.Xr pci 4 .
241.It Ar pctr*
242PC Performance Tuning Register access device, see
243.Xr pctr 4 .
244.It Ar pf*
245Packet Filter, see
246.Xr pf 4 .
247.It Ar pppx*
248PPP Multiplexer, see
249.Xr pppx 4 .
250.It Ar radio*
251FM tuner devices, see
252.Xr radio 4 .
253.It Ar *random
254In-kernel random data source, see
255.Xr random 4 .
256.It Ar rmidi*
257Raw MIDI devices, see
258.Xr midi 4 .
259.It Ar speaker
260PC speaker, see
261.Xr spkr 4 .
262.It Ar tun*
263Network tunnel driver, see
264.Xr tun 4 .
265.It Ar tap*
266Ethernet tunnel driver, see
267.Xr tap 4 .
268.It Ar tuner*
269Tuner devices, see
270.Xr bktr 4 .
271.It Ar uk*
272Unknown SCSI devices, see
273.Xr uk 4 .
274.It Ar video*
275Video V4L2 devices, see
276.Xr video 4 .
277.It Ar vmm
278Virtual Machine Monitor, see
279.Xr vmm 4 .
280.It Ar vscsi*
281Virtual SCSI controller, see
282.Xr vscsi 4 .
283.It Ar pvbus*
284paravirtual device tree root, see
285.Xr pvbus 4 .
286.It Ar switch*
287Switch driver, see
288.Xr switch 4 .
289.El
290.Sh FILES
291.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact
292.It Pa /dev
293The special file directory.
294.El
295.Sh SEE ALSO
296.Xr intro 4 ,
297.Xr config 8 ,
298.Xr mknod 8
299