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.Dd April  7, 2010
.Dt MAKEDEV 8 alpha
.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 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, 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 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 ttyB?
DEC 3000 ZS8530 ("scc") serial ports, see
.Xr scc 4 .
.It Ar ttyc*
Cyclades serial ports, see
.Xr cy 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 wscons
Minimal wscons devices, see
.Xr wscons 4 .
.It Ar ttyC-J*
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 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 uall
All USB devices, see
.Xr usb 4 .
.It Ar ttyU*
USB serial ports, see
.Xr ucom 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 cnc
Computer aided machining interface, see
.Xr cnc 4 .
.It Ar mpg*
Manual-pulse generator, see
.Xr mpg 4 .
.It Ar crypto
Hardware crypto access driver, see
.Xr crypto 4 .
.It Ar fd
fd/* nodes, see
.Xr fd 4 .
.It Ar hotplug
devices hot plugging, see
.Xr hotplug 4 .
.It Ar iop*
I2O controller devices, see
.Xr iop 4 .
.It Ar lkm
Loadable kernel modules interface, see
.Xr lkm 4 .
.It Ar pci*
PCI bus devices, see
.Xr pci 4 .
.It Ar *random
In-kernel random data source, see
.Xr random 4 .
.It Ar speaker
PC speaker, see
.Xr spkr 4 .
.It Ar tun*
Network tunnel driver, see
.Xr tun 4 .
.It Ar uk*
Unknown SCSI devices, see
.Xr uk 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