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.Dd November 15, 2005
.Dt MAKEDEV 8 sgi
.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 sgi supports the following devices:
.Pp
.Sy Special device names
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar all
Creates special files for all devices on sgi.
.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 .
.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 .
.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 ttyC0
Minimal wscons devices, see
.Xr wscons 4 .
.It Ar ttyC-F*
wscons display devices, see
.Xr wsdisplay 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 Special purpose devices
.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact
.It Ar audio*
Audio devices, see
.Xr audio 4 .
.It Ar bpf*
Berkeley Packet Filter, see
.Xr bpf 4 .
.It Ar crypto
Hardware crypto access driver, see
.Xr crypto 4 .
.It Ar fd
fd/* nodes for fdescfs, see
.Xr mount_fdesc 8 .
.It Ar pci
PCI bus device, see
.Xr pci 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