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+.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.1 2006/05/09 21:24:47 miod Exp $
+.\"
+.\" THIS FILE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT.
+.\" generated from:
+.\"
+.\" OpenBSD: etc.aviion/MAKEDEV.md,v 1.1 2006/05/09 21:17:13 miod Exp
+.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.common,v 1.27 2006/04/16 11:34:01 todd Exp
+.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.man,v 1.3 2004/03/12 18:12:12 miod Exp
+.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.mansub,v 1.2 2004/02/20 19:13:01 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 May 9, 2006
+.Dt MAKEDEV 8 aviion
+.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 aviion supports the following devices:
+.Pp
+.Sy Special device names
+.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
+.It Ar all
+Creates special files for all devices on aviion.
+.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, by invoking the shell file
+.Pa MAKEDEV.local .
+.El
+.Pp
+.Sy Disks
+.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
+.It Ar ccd*
+Concatenated disk devices, see
+.Xr ccd 4 .
+.It Ar cd*
+ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see
+.Xr cd 4 .
+.It Ar rd*
+.Dq rd
+pseudo-disks, see
+.Xr rd 4 .
+.It Ar sd*
+SCSI disks, including flopticals, see
+.Xr sd 4 .
+.It Ar vnd*
+.Dq file
+pseudo-disk devices, see
+.Xr vnd 4 .
+.El
+.Pp
+.Sy Tapes
+.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
+.It Ar ch*
+SCSI media changers, see
+.Xr ch 4 .
+.It Ar st*
+SCSI tape drives, see
+.Xr st 4 .
+.El
+.Pp
+.Sy Terminal ports
+.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
+.It Ar ttya-c
+on-board serial and mouse ports, see
+.Xr dart 4 .
+.El
+.Pp
+.Sy Pseudo terminals
+.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
+.It Ar ptm
+pty master device, see
+.Xr ptm 4 .
+.It Ar pty*
+Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see
+.Xr pty 4 .
+.It Ar tty*
+Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see
+.Xr tty 4 .
+.El
+.Pp
+.Sy Special purpose devices
+.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
+.It Ar bpf*
+Berkeley Packet Filter, see
+.Xr bpf 4 .
+.It Ar fd
+fd/* nodes, see
+.Xr fd 4 .
+.It Ar lkm
+Loadable kernel modules interface, see
+.Xr lkm 4 .
+.It Ar nvram0
+On-board non-volatile memory, see
+.Xr nvram 4 .
+.It Ar pf*
+Packet Filter, see
+.Xr pf 4 .
+.It Ar *random
+In-kernel random data source, see
+.Xr random 4 .
+.It Ar ss*
+SCSI scanners, see
+.Xr ss 4 .
+.It Ar systrace*
+System call tracing device, see
+.Xr systrace 4 .
+.It Ar tun*
+Network tunnel driver, see
+.Xr tun 4 .
+.It Ar uk*
+Unknown SCSI devices, see
+.Xr uk 4 .
+.It Ar xfs*
+XFS filesystem node, see
+.Xr mount_xfs 8 .
+.El
+.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