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MAKEDEV(8) FreeBSD/amd64 System Manager's Manual MAKEDEV(8) NAME MAKEDEV -- create system and device special files SYNOPSIS MAKEDEV [name ...] DESCRIPTION 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 amd64 supports the following devices: Special device names all Creates special files for all devices on amd64. ramdisk Ramdisk kernel devices. std Creates the `standard' devices (console, klog, kmem, ksyms, mem, null, stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) which are abso- lutely necessary for the system to function properly. local Creates configuration-specific devices, by invoking the shell file MAKEDEV.local. Disks cd* ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see cd(4). fd* Floppy disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see fd(4). rd* "rd" pseudo-disks, see rd(4). sd* SCSI disks, including flopticals, see sd(4). vnd* "file" pseudo-disk devices, see vnd(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). ttyc* Cyclades serial ports, see cy(4). ttyVI* Virtio serial ports, see viocon(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 ttyC-J* wscons display devices, see wsdisplay(4). wscons Minimal wscons devices, see wscons(4). wskbd* wscons keyboards, see wskbd(4). wsmux wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see wsmux(4). Pointing devices wsmouse* wscons mice, see wsmouse(4). Printers lpa* Polled printer port, see lpt(4). 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 apm Power Management Interface, see apm(4). audio* Audio devices, see audio(4). bio ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see bio(4). bktr* Video frame grabbers, see bktr(4). bpf Berkeley Packet Filter, see bpf(4). dt Dynamic Tracer, see dt(4). diskmap Disk mapper, see diskmap(4). dri Direct Rendering Infrastructure, see drm(4). drm* Direct Rendering Manager, see drm(4). fd fd/* nodes, see fd(4). fuse Userland Filesystem, see fuse(4). gpio* General Purpose Input/Output, see gpio(4). hotplug devices hot plugging, see hotplug(4). ipmi* IPMI BMC access, see ipmi(4). nvram NVRAM access, see nvram(4). kcov Kernel code coverage tracing, see kcov(4). pci* PCI bus devices, see pci(4). pctr* PC Performance Tuning Register access device, see pctr(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). speaker PC speaker, see spkr(4). tun* Network tunnel driver, see tun(4). tap* Ethernet tunnel driver, see tap(4). tuner* Tuner devices, see bktr(4). uk* Unknown SCSI devices, see uk(4). video* Video V4L2 devices, see video(4). vmm Virtual Machine Monitor, see vmm(4). vscsi* Virtual SCSI controller, see vscsi(4). pvbus* paravirtual device tree root, see pvbus(4). switch* Switch driver, see switch(4). kstat Kernel Statistics, see kstat(4). FILES /dev The special file directory. SEE ALSO intro(4), config(8), mknod(8) FreeBSD 13.0 February 12, 2021 FreeBSD 13.0
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