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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 2 2017 $
.Dt MAKEDEV 8 alpha
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm MAKEDEV
.Nd create system and device special files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm MAKEDEV
.Op Ar name ...
.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.
Files are created in the current working directory.
.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 alpha supports the following devices:
.Pp
.Sy Special device names
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar all
Creates special files for all devices on alpha.
.It Ar ramdisk
Ramdisk kernel devices.
.It Ar std
Creates the
.Sq standard
devices (console, 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 cd*
ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see
.Xr cd 4 .
.It Ar fd*
Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see
.Xr fd 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 .
.It Ar wd*
.Dq winchester
disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see
.Xr wd 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 tty[0-7][0-9a-f]
NS16x50 serial ports, see
.Xr com 4 .
.It Ar ttyc*
Cyclades serial ports, see
.Xr cy 4 .
.It Ar ttyB*
DEC 3000 serial ports, see
.Xr zs 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 Console ports
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar ttyC-J*
wscons display devices, see
.Xr wsdisplay 4 .
.It Ar wscons
Minimal wscons devices, see
.Xr wscons 4 .
.It Ar wskbd*
wscons keyboards, see
.Xr wskbd 4 .
.It Ar wsmux
wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see
.Xr wsmux 4 .
.El
.Pp
.Sy Pointing devices
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar wsmouse*
wscons mice, see
.Xr wsmouse 4 .
.El
.Pp
.Sy Printers
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar lpa*
Polled printer port, see
.Xr lpt 4 .
.It Ar lpt*
IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see
.Xr lpt 4 .
.El
.Pp
.Sy USB devices
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar ttyU*
USB serial ports, see
.Xr ucom 4 .
.It Ar uall
All USB devices, see
.Xr usb 4 .
.It Ar ugen*
Generic USB devices, see
.Xr ugen 4 .
.It Ar uhid*
Generic HID devices, see
.Xr uhid 4 .
.It Ar ulpt*
Printer devices, see
.Xr ulpt 4 .
.It Ar usb*
Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see
.Xr usb 4 .
.El
.Pp
.Sy Special purpose devices
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar audio*
Audio devices, see
.Xr audio 4 .
.It Ar bio
ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see
.Xr bio 4 .
.It Ar bktr*
Video frame grabbers, see
.Xr bktr 4 .
.It Ar bpf
Berkeley Packet Filter, see
.Xr bpf 4 .
.It Ar diskmap
Disk mapper, see
.Xr diskmap 4 .
.It Ar fd
fd/* nodes, see
.Xr fd 4 .
.It Ar fuse
Userland Filesystem, see
.Xr fuse 4 .
.It Ar hotplug
devices hot plugging, see
.Xr hotplug 4 .
.It Ar pci*
PCI bus devices, see
.Xr pci 4 .
.It Ar pf*
Packet Filter, see
.Xr pf 4 .
.It Ar pppx*
PPP Multiplexer, see
.Xr pppx 4 .
.It Ar radio*
FM tuner devices, see
.Xr radio 4 .
.It Ar *random
In-kernel random data source, see
.Xr random 4 .
.It Ar rmidi*
Raw MIDI devices, see
.Xr midi 4 .
.It Ar speaker
PC speaker, see
.Xr spkr 4 .
.It Ar tun*
Network tunnel driver, see
.Xr tun 4 .
.It Ar tap*
Ethernet tunnel driver, see
.Xr tap 4 .
.It Ar tuner*
Tuner devices, see
.Xr bktr 4 .
.It Ar uk*
Unknown SCSI devices, see
.Xr uk 4 .
.It Ar video*
Video V4L2 devices, see
.Xr video 4 .
.It Ar vscsi*
Virtual SCSI controller, see
.Xr vscsi 4 .
.It Ar switch*
Switch driver, see
.Xr switch 4 .
.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