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diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.amd64/MAKEDEV.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.amd64/MAKEDEV.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e9120950941 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man8/man8.amd64/MAKEDEV.8 @@ -0,0 +1,241 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.1 2004/02/16 19:05:06 miod Exp $ +.\" +.\" THIS FILE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. +.\" generated from: +.\" +.\" OpenBSD: etc.amd64/MAKEDEV.md,v 1.4 2004/02/16 19:01:01 miod Exp +.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.common,v 1.1 2004/02/16 18:58:54 miod Exp +.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.man,v 1.1 2004/02/16 19:03:30 miod Exp +.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.mansub,v 1.1 2004/02/16 19:03:30 miod Exp +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2004, Miodrag Vallat +.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd February 16, 2004 +.Dt MAKEDEV 8 amd64 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm MAKEDEV +.Nd create system and device special files +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm MAKEDEV +.Ar name +.Op Ar ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The shell script +.Nm , +found in the +.Pa /dev +directory, is used to create various special files. +See +.Xr intro 4 +for a more complete discussion of special files. +.Pp +.Nm +takes any number of device names as arguments, where the names are +the common abbreviation for the device or group of devices. +.Pp +Where a device name is followed by a star +.Sq * , +the star must be replaced by a unit number. +If units are expected for a device but not provided, +.Nm +will supply the standard numbers in most cases. +.Pp +The amd64 supports the following devices: +.Pp +.Pp +.Sy Special device names +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar all +Creates special files for all devices on amd64. +.It Ar ramdisk +Ramdisk kernel devices. +.It Ar std +Creates the +.Sq standard +devices (console, drum, klog, kmem, ksyms, mem, null, +stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) +which are absolutely necessary for the system to function properly. +.It Ar local +Creates configuration-specific devices. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Disks +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar ccd* +Concatenated disk devices. +.It Ar cd* +SCSI cdrom drives. +.It Ar fd* +Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"). +.It Ar mcd* +Mitsumi cdrom drives. +.It Ar raid* +RAIDframe disk devices. +.It Ar rd* +.Dq rd +pseudo-disks. +.It Ar sd* +SCSI disks. +.It Ar vnd* +.Dq file +pseudo-disk devices. +.It Ar wd* +.Dq winchester +disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...). +.El +.Pp +.Sy Tapes +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar ch* +SCSI media changers. +.It Ar st* +SCSI tape drives. +.It Ar wt* +Archive/Wangtek QIC-cartridge tape drives. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Terminal ports +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar tty[0-7][0-9a-f] +NS16x50 serial ports. +.It Ar ttyc* +Cyclades serial ports. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Call units +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar tun* +Network tunnel driver. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Pseudo terminals +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar ptm +pty master device. +.It Ar pty* +Set of 16 master pseudo terminals. +.It Ar tty* +Set of 16 slave pseudo terminals. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Console ports +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar ttyC0 +Minimal wscons devices. +.It Ar ttyC-F* +wscons display devices. +.It Ar wskbd* +wscons keyboards. +.It Ar wsmux +wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Pointing devices +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar wsmouse* +wscons mice. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Printers +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar lpa* +Polled printer port. +.It Ar lpt* +IEEE 1284 centronics printer. +.El +.Pp +.Sy USB devices +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar usbs +All USB devices. +.It Ar ttyU* +USB serial ports. +.It Ar ugen* +Generic USB devices. +.It Ar uhid* +Generic HID devices. +.It Ar ulpt* +Printer devices. +.It Ar urio* +Diamond Multimedia Rio 500. +.It Ar usb* +Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach. +.It Ar uscanner* +Scanners. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Special purpose devices +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar apm +Power management device. +.It Ar audio* +Audio devices. +.It Ar bktr* +Video frame grabbers. +.It Ar bpf* +Berkeley Packet Filter. +.It Ar crypto +Hardware crypto access driver. +.It Ar fd +fd/* nodes for fdescfs. +.It Ar gpr* +GPR400 smartcard reader. +.It Ar iop* +I2O controller devices. +.It Ar joy* +Joystick driver. +.It Ar lkm +Loadable kernel modules interface. +.It Ar music* +MIDI devices. +.It Ar pci +PCI bus device. +.It Ar pctr* +PC Performance Tuning Register access device. +.It Ar pf* +Packet Filter. +.It Ar radio* +FM tuner devices. +.It Ar rmidi* +Raw MIDI devices. +.It Ar *random +In-kernel random data source. +.It Ar ses* +SES/SAF-TE SCSI devices. +.It Ar speaker +PC speaker. +.It Ar ss* +SCSI scanners. +.It Ar systrace* +System call tracing device. +.It Ar tuner* +Tuner devices. +.It Ar uk* +SCSI unknown devices. +.It Ar wdt0 +Watchdog timer. +.It Ar xfs* +XFS filesystem node. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact +.It Pa /dev +The special file directory. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr config 8 , +.Xr mknod 8 |