NAME
MAKEDEV —
create system and device special
files
SYNOPSIS
MAKEDEV |
[name ...] |
DESCRIPTION
The shell script MAKEDEV, found in the
/dev directory, is used to create various special
files. See intro(4) for a more complete discussion of special files.
MAKEDEV takes any number of device names
as arguments, where the names are the common abbreviation for the device or
group of devices. Files are created in the current working directory.
Where a device name is followed by a star ‘*’, the
star must be replaced by a unit number. If units are expected for a device
but not provided, MAKEDEV will supply the standard
numbers in most cases.
The i386 supports the following devices:
Special device names
- all
- Creates special files for all devices on i386.
- ramdisk
- Ramdisk kernel devices.
- std
- Creates the ‘standard’ devices (console, klog, kmem, ksyms, mem, null, stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) which are absolutely necessary for the system to function properly.
- local
- Creates configuration-specific devices, by invoking the shell file MAKEDEV.local.
- cd*
- ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see cd(4).
- fd*
- Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see fd(4).
- rd*
- “rd” pseudo-disks, see rd(4).
- sd*
- SCSI disks, including flopticals, see sd(4).
- vnd*
- “file” pseudo-disk devices, see vnd(4).
- wd*
- “winchester” disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see wd(4).
- ch*
- SCSI media changers, see ch(4).
- st*
- SCSI tape drives, see st(4).
- tty[0-7][0-9a-f]
- NS16x50 serial ports, see com(4).
- ttyc*
- Cyclades serial ports, see cy(4).
- ptm
- pty master device, see ptm(4).
- pty*
- Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see pty(4).
- tty*
- Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see tty(4).
- ttyC-J*
- wscons display devices, see wsdisplay(4).
- wscons
- Minimal wscons devices, see wscons(4).
- wskbd*
- wscons keyboards, see wskbd(4).
- wsmux
- wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see wsmux(4).
- wsmouse*
- wscons mice, see wsmouse(4).
- lpa*
- Polled printer port, see lpt(4).
- lpt*
- IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see lpt(4).
- ttyU*
- USB serial ports, see ucom(4).
- uall
- All USB devices, see usb(4).
- ugen*
- Generic USB devices, see ugen(4).
- uhid*
- Generic HID devices, see uhid(4).
- fido
- fido/* nodes, see fido(4).
- ulpt*
- Printer devices, see ulpt(4).
- usb*
- Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see usb(4).
Special purpose devices
- amdmsr
- AMD MSR access device, see amdmsr(4).
- apm
- Power management device, see apm(4).
- audio*
- Audio devices, see audio(4).
- bio
- ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see bio(4).
- bktr*
- Video frame grabbers, see bktr(4).
- bpf
- Berkeley Packet Filter, see bpf(4).
- dt
- Dynamic Tracer, see dt(4).
- diskmap
- Disk mapper, see diskmap(4).
- drm*
- Direct Rendering Manager, see drm(4).
- fd
- fd/* nodes, see fd(4).
- fuse
- Userland Filesystem, see fuse(4).
- gpio*
- General Purpose Input/Output, see gpio(4).
- hotplug
- devices hot plugging, see hotplug(4).
- ipmi*
- IPMI BMC access, see ipmi(4).
- joy*
- Joystick driver, see joy(4).
- kcov
- Kernel code coverage tracing, see kcov(4).
- nvram
- NVRAM access, see nvram(4).
- pci*
- PCI bus devices, see pci(4).
- pctr*
- PC Performance Tuning Register access device, see pctr(4).
- pf*
- Packet Filter, see pf(4).
- pppx*
- PPP Multiplexer, see pppx(4).
- pppac*
- PPP Access Concentrator, see pppac(4).
- radio*
- FM tuner devices, see radio(4).
- *random
- In-kernel random data source, see random(4).
- rmidi*
- Raw MIDI devices, see midi(4).
- speaker
- PC speaker, see spkr(4).
- tun*
- Network tunnel driver, see tun(4).
- tap*
- Ethernet tunnel driver, see tap(4).
- tuner*
- Tuner devices, see bktr(4).
- uk*
- Unknown SCSI devices, see uk(4).
- video*
- Video V4L2 devices, see video(4).
- vscsi*
- Virtual SCSI controller, see vscsi(4).
- pvbus*
- paravirtual device tree root, see pvbus(4).
- switch*
- Switch driver, see switch(4).
- kstat
- Kernel Statistics, see kstat(4).
FILES
- /dev
- The special file directory.