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 sparc64 supports the following devices:
Special device names
- all
- Creates special files for all devices on sparc64.
- 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).
- cua[a-z]*
- Zilog 8530 serial port, see zs(4).
- magma*
- Magma multiport cards, see magma(4).
- spif*
- “spif” multiport cards, see spif(4).
- tty[0-7][0-9a-f]
- NS16x50 serial ports, see com(4).
- tty[a-z]*
- Zilog 8530 serial port, see zs(4).
- ttyh*
- Sab82532 serial devices, see sab(4).
- ttyV*
- Virtual console concentrator, see vcctty(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).
- console
- PROM console, see pcons(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).
- bpp*
- Parallel port, see bpp(4).
- bpp[jkl]
- “spif” parallel port, see spif(4).
- bppmag[mno]
- Magma parallel port, see magma(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).
- ujoy
- ujoy/* nodes, see ujoy(4).
- ulpt*
- Printer devices, see ulpt(4).
- usb*
- Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see usb(4).
Special purpose devices
- audio*
- Audio devices, see audio(4).
- bio
- ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see bio(4).
- bpf
- Berkeley Packet Filter, see bpf(4).
- diskmap
- Disk mapper, see diskmap(4).
- dri
- Direct Rendering Infrastructure, see drm(4).
- fd
- fd/* nodes, see fd(4).
- dt
- Dynamic Tracer, see dt(4).
- fuse
- Userland Filesystem, see fuse(4).
- hotplug
- devices hot plugging, see hotplug(4).
- openprom
- PROM settings, see openprom(4).
- pci*
- PCI bus devices, see pci(4).
- pf
- Packet Filter, see pf(4).
- pppx*
- PPP Multiplexer, see pppx(4).
- pppac*
- PPP Access Concentrator, see pppac(4).
- rmidi*
- Raw MIDI devices, see midi(4).
- *random
- In-kernel random data source, see random(4).
- tun*
- Network tunnel driver, see tun(4).
- tap*
- Ethernet tunnel driver, see tap(4).
- uk*
- Unknown SCSI devices, see uk(4).
- uperf
- Performance counters, see uperf(4).
- video*
- Video V4L2 devices, see video(4).
- vscsi*
- Virtual SCSI controller, see vscsi(4).
- hvctl
- Hypervisor control channel, see vldcp(4).
- spds
- Service processor domain services channel, see vldcp(4).
- ldom*
- Logical domain services channels, see vldcp(4).
- vdsp*
- Virtual disk server ports, see vdsp(4).
- kstat
- Kernel Statistics, see kstat(4).
FILES
- /dev
- The special file directory.