MAKEDEV — create
system and device special files
The shell script MAKEDEV, found in the
/dev directory, is used to create various special
files. See intro(4) for a more
complete discussion of special files.
MAKEDEV 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.
Where a device name is followed by a star ‘*’, the
star must be replaced by a unit number. If units are expected for a device
but not provided, MAKEDEV will supply the standard
numbers in most cases.
The powerpc64 supports the following devices:
Special device names
- all
- Creates special files for all devices on powerpc64.
- ramdisk
- Ramdisk kernel devices.
- std
- Creates the ‘standard’ devices (console, klog, kmem, ksyms,
mem, null, stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) which are absolutely
necessary for the system to function properly.
- local
- Creates configuration-specific devices, by invoking the shell file
MAKEDEV.local.
Disks
- vnd*
- “file” pseudo-disk devices, see
vnd(4).
- rd*
- “rd” pseudo-disks, see
rd(4).
- sd*
- SCSI disks, including flopticals, see
sd(4).
- cd*
- ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see
cd(4).
- wd*
- “winchester” disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see
wd(4).
Tapes
- ch*
- SCSI media changers, see
ch(4).
- st*
- SCSI tape drives, see st(4).
Terminal
ports
- tty[0-7][0-9a-f]
- NS16x50 serial ports, see
com(4).
Pseudo
terminals
- ptm
- pty master device, see
ptm(4).
- pty*
- Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see
pty(4).
- tty*
- Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see
tty(4).
Console
ports
- wscons
- Minimal wscons devices, see
wscons(4).
- ttyC-J*
- wscons display devices, see
wsdisplay(4).
- wskbd*
- wscons keyboards, see
wskbd(4).
- wsmouse*
- wscons mice, see
wsmouse(4).
- wsmux
- wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see
wsmux(4).
Printers
- lpt*
- IEEE 1284 centronics printer, see
lpt(4).
USB
devices
- ttyU*
- USB serial ports, see
ucom(4).
- uall
- All USB devices, see usb(4).
- ugen*
- Generic USB devices, see
ugen(4).
- uhid*
- Generic HID devices, see
uhid(4).
- fido
- fido/* nodes, see fido(4).
- ujoy
- ujoy/* nodes, see ujoy(4).
- ulpt*
- Printer devices, see
ulpt(4).
- usb*
- Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see
usb(4).
Special purpose devices
- audio*
- Audio devices, see
audio(4).
- bio
- ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see
bio(4).
- bpf
- Berkeley Packet Filter, see
bpf(4).
- diskmap
- Disk mapper, see
diskmap(4).
- dri
- Direct Rendering Infrastructure, see
drm(4).
- dt
- Dynamic Tracer, see dt(4).
- fd
- fd/* nodes, see fd(4).
- fuse
- Userland Filesystem, see
fuse(4).
- hotplug
- devices hot plugging, see
hotplug(4).
- ipmi*
- IPMI BMC access, see
ipmi(4).
- kcov
- Kernel code coverage tracing, see
kcov(4).
- pci*
- PCI bus devices, see pci(4).
- pf
- Packet Filter, see pf(4).
- pppx*
- PPP Multiplexer, see
pppx(4).
- pppac*
- PPP Access Concentrator, see
pppac(4).
- radio*
- FM tuner devices, see
radio(4).
- *random
- In-kernel random data source, see
random(4).
- rmidi*
- Raw MIDI devices, see
midi(4).
- tap*
- Ethernet tunnel driver, see
tap(4).
- tun*
- Network tunnel driver, see
tun(4).
- uk*
- Unknown SCSI devices, see
uk(4).
- vscsi*
- Virtual SCSI controller, see
vscsi(4).
- kstat
- Kernel Statistics, see
kstat(4).
- /dev
- The special file directory.