MAKEDEV(8) BSD System Manager's Manual (i386) MAKEDEV(8)
MAKEDEV - create system and device special files
MAKEDEV name [...]
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.
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.
rambig additional devices to be put on large ramdisk media.
std Creates the 'standard' devices (console, drum, 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.
Disks
ccd* Concatenated disk devices, see ccd(4).
cd* ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see cd(4).
fd* Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see fd(4).
mcd* Mitsumi CD-ROM drives, see mcd(4).
raid* RAIDframe disk devices, see raid(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).
Tapes
ch* SCSI media changers, see ch(4).
st* SCSI tape drives, see st(4).
wt* Archive/Wangtek QIC-cartridge tape drives, see wt(4).
Terminal ports
tty[0-7][0-9a-f]
NS16x50 serial ports, see com(4).
ttyc* Cyclades serial ports, see cy(4).
Pseudo terminals
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 ports
ttyC0 Minimal wscons devices, see wscons(4).
ttyC-F* wscons display devices, see wsdisplay(4).
wskbd* wscons keyboards, see wskbd(4).
wsmux wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see wsmux(4).
Pointing devices
wsmouse* wscons mice, see wsmouse(4).
Printers
lpa* Polled printer port, see lpt(4).
lpt* IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see lpt(4).
USB devices
uall All USB devices, see usb(4).
ttyU* USB serial ports, see ucom(4).
ugen* Generic USB devices, see ugen(4).
uhid* Generic HID devices, see uhid(4).
ulpt* Printer devices, see ulpt(4).
urio* Diamond Multimedia Rio 500, see urio(4).
usb* Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see
usb(4).
uscanner* Scanners, see uscanner(4).
Special purpose devices
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).
crypto Hardware crypto access driver, see crypto(4).
fd fd/* nodes for fdescfs, see mount_fdesc(8).
gpr* GPR400 smartcard reader, see gpr(4).
iop* I2O controller devices, see iop(4).
joy* Joystick driver, see joy(4).
lkm Loadable kernel modules interface, see lkm(4).
music* MIDI devices, see midi(4).
pci PCI bus device, see pci(4).
pctr* PC Performance Tuning Register access device, see pctr(4).
pf* Packet Filter, see pf(4).
radio* FM tuner devices, see radio(4).
rmidi* Raw MIDI devices, see midi(4).
*random In-kernel random data source, see random(4).
speaker PC speaker, see spkr(4).
ss* SCSI scanners, see ss(4).
systrace* System call tracing device, see systrace(4).
tun* Network tunnel driver, see tun(4).
tuner* Tuner devices, see tuner(4).
uk* Unknown SCSI devices, see uk(4).
wdt0 Watchdog timer, see wdt(4).
I4B devices
isdn ISDN4BSD master device, see isdn(4).
isdnctl ISDN4BSD control device, see isdnctl(4).
isdnbchan* ISDN4BSD raw B channel device, see isdnbchan(4).
isdntrc* ISDN4BSD tracing device, see isdntrc(4).
isdntel* ISDN4BSD telephony device, see isdntel(4).
/dev The special file directory.
intro(4), config(8), mknod(8)
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