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DESCRIPTION

The script is in /dev/MAKEDEV. Devices are created in the current working directory; in normal use, MAKEDEV should be invoked with /dev as the current working directory.

Supported options are:

-f

Force permissions to be updated on existing devices. This works only if MAKEDEV invokes mknod(8); it is not compatible with the -p, -s, or -t options.

-M

Create a memory file system, union mounted over the current directory, to contain the device special files. The memory file system is created using mount_tmpfs(8) or mount_mfs(8), in that order of preference.

If the -M flag is specified more than once, then MAKEDEV assumes that it is being invoked from init(8) to populate a memory file system for /dev. In this case, MAKEDEV will also redirect its output to the system console.

-m mknod

Force the use of mknod(8), and specify the name or path to the mknod(8) program. [Usually, $TOOL_MKNOD or mknod.]

-p pax

Force the use of pax(1), and specify the name or path to the pax(1) program. [Usually, $TOOL_PAX or pax.]

-s

Generate an mtree(8) specfile instead of creating devices.

-t mtree

Force the use of mtree(8), and specify the name or path to the mtree(8) program. [Usually, $TOOL_MTREE or mtree.]

-u

Don't re-create devices that already exist.

MAKEDEV has several possible methods of creating device nodes:

• By invoking the mknod(8) command once for each device node. This is the traditional method, but it is slow because each device node is created using a new process.

  The -m option forces MAKEDEV to use the mknod(8) method.

• By internally creating a specfile in a format usable by mtree(8), and providing the specfile on standard input to a pax(1) or mtree(8) command, invoked with options that request it to create the device nodes as well as any necessary subdirectories. This is much faster than creating device nodes with mknod(8), because it requires much fewer processes; however, it's not compatible with the -f option.

  The -p or -t options force MAKEDEV to use the pax(1) or mtree(8) methods.

• If the -s option is specified, then MAKEDEV will not create device nodes at all, but will output a specfile in a format usable by mtree(8).

The -m, -p, -s, and -t flags are mutually exclusive. If none of these flags is specified, then MAKEDEV will use mtree(8), pax(1), or mknod(8), in that order of preference, depending on which commands appear to be available and usable. In normal use, it's expected that mtree(8) will be available, so it will be chosen. If MAKEDEV is invoked by init(8), it's expected that mtree(8) will not be available, but pax(1) may be available.

The special targets supported on NetBSD are:

all

Makes all known devices, including local devices. Tries to make the 'standard' number of each type.

init

A set of devices that is used for MFS /dev by init. May be equal to ``all''.

floppy

Devices to be put on install floppies

ramdisk

Devices to be put into INSTALL kernel ramdisks.

std

Standard devices

local

Configuration specific devices

lua

Lua device

wscons

Make wscons devices

usbs

Make USB devices

Please note that any hash marks (“#”) in the following list of supported device targets must be replaced by digits when calling MAKEDEV:

Tapes:

st#

SCSI tapes, see st(4)

wt#

QIC-interfaced (e.g. not SCSI) 3M cartridge tape, see wt(4)

ht#

MASSBUS TM03 and TU??, see vax/ht(4)

mt#

MSCP tapes (e.g. TU81, TK50), see vax/mt(4)

tm#

UNIBUS TM11 and TE10 emulations (e.g. Emulex TC-11), see vax/tm(4)

ts#

UNIBUS TS11, see vax/ts(4)

ut#

UNIBUS TU45 emulations (e.g. si 9700), see vax/ut(4)

uu#

TU58 cassettes on DL11 controller, see vax/uu(4)

Disks:

dk#

Wedge disk slices, see dk(4)

ccd#

Concatenated disk devices, see ccd(4)

cd#

SCSI or ATAPI CD-ROM, see cd(4)

cgd#

Cryptographic disk devices, see cgd(4)

raid#

RAIDframe disk devices, see raid(4)

sd#

SCSI disks, see sd(4)

wd#

``winchester'' disk drives (ST506,IDE,ESDI,RLL,...), see wd(4)

bmd#

Nereid bank memory disks, see x68k/bmd(4)

ed#

IBM PS/2 ESDI disk devices, see edc(4)

fd#

``floppy'' disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see amiga/fdc(4), sparc64/fdc(4), x86/fdc(4)

fss#

Files system snapshot devices, see fss(4)

gdrom#

Dreamcast ``gigadisc'' CD-ROM drive, see dreamcast/gdrom(4)

hk#

UNIBUS RK06 and RK07, see vax/hk(4)

hp#

MASSBUS RM??, see vax/hp(4)

ld#

Logical disk devices (e.g., hardware RAID), see ld(4)

mcd#

Mitsumi CD-ROM, see mcd(4)

md#

Memory pseudo-disk devices, see md(4)

ofdisk#

OpenFirmware disk devices

ra#

MSCP disks (RA??, RD??)

rb#

730 IDC w/ RB80 and/or RB02

rd#

HDC9224 RD disks on VS2000, see hp300/rd(4)

rl#

UNIBUS RL02, see vax/rl(4)

rx#

MSCP floppy disk (RX33/50/...)

up#

Other UNIBUS devices (e.g. on Emulex SC-21V controller), see vax/up(4)

vnd#

``file'' pseudo-disks, see vnd(4)

xbd#

Xen virtual disks, see xbd(4)

xd#

Xylogic 753/7053 disks, see sparc/xd(4)

xy#

Xylogic 450/451 disks, see sparc/xy(4)

Pointing devices:

wsmouse#

wscons mouse events, see wsmouse(4)

lms#

Logitech bus mouse, see i386/lms(4)

mms#

Microsoft bus mouse, see dreamcast/mms(4), i386/mms(4)

qms#

``quadrature mouse'', see acorn32/qms(4)

pms#

PS/2 mouse

mouse

Mouse (provides events, for X11)

Keyboard devices:

wskbd#

wscons keyboard events, see wskbd(4)

kbd

Raw keyboard (provides events, for X11), see sparc/kbd(4), sun2/kbd(4), sun3/kbd(4)

kbdctl

Keyboard control

Terminals/Console ports:

tty[01]#

Standard serial ports, see tty(4)

tty0#

SB1250 (``sbscn'') serial ports (sbmips), see tty(4)

ttyE#

wscons - Workstation console (``wscons'') glass-tty emulators

ttyCZ?

Cyclades-Z multiport serial boards. Each ``unit'' makes 64 ports., see cz(4)

ttyCY?

Cyclom-Y multiport serial boards. Each ``unit'' makes 32 ports., see cy(4)

ttye#

ITE bitmapped consoles, see amiga/ite(4)

ttyv0

pccons

ttyC?

NS16550 (``com'') serial ports

ttyS#

SA1110 serial port (hpcarm)

ttyTX?

TX39 internal serial ports (hpcmips)

ttyB?

DEC 3000 ZS8530 (``scc'') serial ports (alpha)

ttyA#

Mfc serial ports (amiga)

ttyB#

Msc serial ports (amiga)

ttyC#

Com style serial ports (DraCo, HyperCom) (amiga) On the DraCo, units 0 and 1 are the built-in ``modem'' and ``mouse'' ports, if configured.

ttyA0

8530 Channel A (formerly ser02) (atari)

ttyA1

8530 Channel B (formerly mdm02) (atari)

ttyB0

UART on first 68901 (formerly mdm01) (atari)

ixpcom

IXP12x0 COM ports

epcom

EP93xx COM ports

plcom

ARM PL01[01] serial ports

wmcom

EPOC Windermere COM ports

ttyM?

HP200/300 4 port serial mux interface (hp300)

ttya

``ttya'' system console (luna68k)

ttyb

Second system serial port (luna68k)

tty#

Onboard serial ports (mvme68k) On the mvme147 these are: ttyZ1, ttyZ2 and ttyZ3. On the mvme167, and '177: ttyC1, ttyC2 and ttyC3. Note that tty[CZ]0 is grabbed by the console device so is not created by default, see tty(4)

dc#

PMAX 4 channel serial interface (kbd, mouse, modem, printer)

scc#

82530 serial interface (pmax)

ttyZ#

Zilog 8530 (``zstty'') serial ports, see zstty(4)

tty[abcd]

Built-in serial ports (sparc)

tty#

Z88530 serial controllers (sparc64), see tty(4)

ttyh#

SAB82532 serial controllers (sparc64), see sparc64/sab(4)

tty[a-j]

Built-in serial ports (sun2, sun3)

ttyC?

pccons (arc)

dz#

UNIBUS DZ11 and DZ32 (vax), see emips/dz(4), vax/dz(4)

dh#

UNIBUS DH11 and emulations (e.g. Able DMAX, Emulex CS-11) (vax), see vax/dh(4)

dmf#

UNIBUS DMF32 (vax), see vax/dmf(4)

dhu#

UNIBUS DHU11 (vax), see vax/dhu(4)

dmz#

UNIBUS DMZ32 (vax), see vax/dmz(4)

dl#

UNIBUS DL11 (vax), see vax/dl(4)

xencons

Xen virtual console

Terminal multiplexors:

dc#

4 channel serial interface (keyboard, mouse, modem, printer)

dh#

UNIBUS DH11 and emulations (e.g. Able DMAX, Emulex CS-11), see vax/dh(4)

dhu#

UNIBUS DHU11, see vax/dhu(4)

dl#

UNIBUS DL11, see vax/dl(4)

dmf#

UNIBUS DMF32, see vax/dmf(4)

dmz#

UNIBUS DMZ32, see vax/dmz(4)

dz#

UNIBUS DZ11 and DZ32, see emips/dz(4), vax/dz(4)

scc#

82530 serial interface

Call units:

dn#

UNIBUS DN11 and emulations (e.g. Able Quadracall), see vax/dn(4)

Pseudo terminals:

ptm

Pty multiplexor device, and pts directory, see ptm(4)

pty#

Set of 16 master and slave pseudo terminals, see pty(4)

opty

First 16 ptys, to save inodes on install media

ipty

First 2 ptys, for install media use only

Printers:

arcpp#

Archimedes parallel port

lpt#

Stock lp, see lpt(4), acorn32/lpt(4), mvme68k/lpt(4), x86/lpt(4)

lpa#

Interruptless lp

par#

Amiga motherboard parallel port

cpi#

Macintosh Nubus CSI parallel printer card, see mac68k/cpi(4)

USB devices:

usb#

USB control devices, see usb(4)

uhid#

USB generic HID devices, see uhid(4)

ulpt#

USB printer devices, see ulpt(4)

ugen#

USB generic devices, see ugen(4)

urio#

USB Diamond Rio 500 devices, see urio(4)

uscanner#

USB scanners, see uscanner(4)

ttyHS#

USB Option N.V. modems

ttyU#

USB modems, see ucom(4)

ttyY#

USB serial adapters

Video devices:

bwtwo#

Monochromatic frame buffer, see sparc/bwtwo(4), sun2/bwtwo(4), sun3/bwtwo(4)

cgtwo#

8-bit color frame buffer, see sparc/cgtwo(4), sun3/cgtwo(4)

cgthree#

8-bit color frame buffer, see sparc/cgthree(4)

cgfour#

8-bit color frame buffer, see sparc/cgfour(4), sun3/cgfour(4)

cgsix#

Accelerated 8-bit color frame buffer, see sparc/cgsix(4)

cgeight#

24-bit color frame buffer, see sparc/cgeight(4)

etvme

Tseng et-compatible cards on VME (atari)

ik#

UNIBUS interface to Ikonas frame buffer, see vax/ik(4)

leo

Circad Leonardo VME-bus true color (atari)

ps#

UNIBUS interface to Picture System 2, see vax/ps(4)

qv#

QVSS (MicroVAX) display

tcx#

Accelerated 8/24-bit color frame buffer, see sparc/tcx(4)

Maple bus devices:

maple

Maple bus control devices, see dreamcast/maple(4)

mlcd#

Maple bus LCD devices, see dreamcast/mlcd(4)

mmem#

Maple bus storage devices, see dreamcast/mmem(4)

IEEE1394 bus devices:

fw#

IEEE1394 bus generic node access devices

fwmem#

IEEE1394 bus physical memory of the remote node access devices

Special purpose devices:

ad#

UNIBUS interface to Data Translation A/D converter, see vax/ad(4)

agp#

AGP GART devices, see agp(4)

altq

ALTQ control interface, see altq(4)

amr#

AMI MegaRaid control device, see amr(4)

apm

Power management device, see i386/apm(4)

audio#

Audio devices, see audio(4)

bell#

OPM bell device (x68k)

bktr

Brooktree 848/849/878/879 based TV cards, see bktr(4)

bpf

Packet filter, see bpf(4)

bthub

Bluetooth Device Hub control interface, see bthub(4)

cfs#

Coda file system device

ch#

SCSI media changer, see ch(4)

cir#

Consumer IR, see cir(4)

clockctl

Clock control for non root users, see clockctl(4)

cpuctl

CPU control

crypto

Hardware crypto access driver, see crypto(4)

dmoverio

Hardware-assisted data movers, see dmoverio(4)

dpt#

DPT/Adaptec EATA RAID management interface, see dpt(4)

dpti#

DPT/Adaptec I2O RAID management interface, see dpti(4)

drm#

Direct Rendering Manager interface, see drm(4)

dtv#

Digital TV interface, see dtv(4)

fb#

PMAX generic framebuffer pseudo-device

fd

File descriptors

gpiopps#

1PPS signals on GPIO pins, see gpiopps(4)

grf#

Graphics frame buffer device, see amiga/grf(4)

hdaudio#

High Definition audio control device, see hdaudio(4)

hdmicec#

HDMI CEC devices

hil

HP300 HIL input devices, see hil(4)

icp

ICP-Vortex/Intel RAID control interface, see icp(4)

iic#

IIC bus device, see iic(4)

io

X86 IOPL access for COMPAT_10, COMPAT_FREEBSD, see hppa/io(4), i386/io(4)

iop#

I2O IOP control interface, see iop(4)

ipl

IP Filter

irframe#

IrDA physical frame, see irframe(4)

ite#

Terminal emulator interface to HP300 graphics devices, see amiga/ite(4)

joy#

Joystick device, see joy(4)

kttcp

Kernel ttcp helper device, see kttcp(4)

lockstat

Kernel locking statistics

magma#

Magma multiport serial/parallel cards, see sparc/magma(4)

midi#

MIDI, see midi(4)

mfi#

LSI MegaRAID/MegaSAS control interface, see mfi(4)

mlx#

Mylex DAC960 control interface, see mlx(4)

mly#

Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID control interface, see mly(4)

np#

UNIBUS Ethernet co-processor interface, for downloading., see vax/np(4)

npf

NPF packet filter

nsmb#

SMB requester, see nsmb(4)

nvme#

Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface device driver, see nvme(4)

nvme#ns*

Non-Volatile Memory namespace

nvmm

NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor, see nvmm(4)

openfirm

OpenFirmware accessor

pad#

Pseudo-audio device driver, see pad(4)

pci#

PCI bus access devices, see pci(4)

pf

PF packet filter

putter

Pass-to-Userspace Transporter

px#

PixelStamp Xserver access, see px(4)

radio#

Radio devices, see radio(4)

random

Random number generator, see rnd(4)

rtc#

RealTimeClock, see atari/rtc(4), evbppc/rtc(4), hp300/rtc(4)

scsibus#

SCSI busses, see scsi(4)

se#

SCSI Ethernet, see se(4)

ses#

SES/SAF-TE SCSI Devices, see ses(4)

speaker

PC speaker, see speaker(4)

spi#

SPI bus device, see spi(4)

sram

Battery backuped memory (x68k)

srt#

Source-address based routing

ss#

SCSI scanner, see ss(4)

stic#

PixelStamp interface chip

sysmon

System Monitoring hardware, see envsys(4)

tap#

Virtual Ethernet device, see tap(4)

tprof

Task profiler, see tprof(4)

tun#

Network tunnel driver, see tun(4)

twa

3ware Apache control interface, see twa(4)

twe

3ware Escalade control interface, see twe(4)

uk#

Unknown SCSI device, see uk(4)

veriexec

Veriexec fingerprint loader, see veriexec(4)

video#

Video capture devices, see video(4)

view#

Generic interface to graphic displays (Amiga)

wsfont#

Console font control, see wsfont(4)

wsmux#

wscons event multiplexor, see wsmux(4)

xenevt

Xen event interface

iSCSI communication devices

iscsi#

ISCSI driver and /sbin/iscsid communication

Trusted Computing devices

tpm

Trusted Platform Module, see tpm(4)

Debugging and tracing

dtrace

Dynamic tracing framework