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MAKEDEV(8)           NetBSD/hp300  System Manager's Manual          MAKEDEV(8)


NAME

     MAKEDEV - create system and device special files


SYNOPSIS

     MAKEDEV special [...]

     MAKEDEV device [...]


DESCRIPTION

     MAKEDEV is used to create system and device special files.  As arguments
     it takes the names of known devices, like sd0, or of special targets,
     like all or std, which create a collection of device special files.

     The script is in /dev/MAKEDEV and must be called from the /dev directory.
     For the creation of the devices, mknod(8) is used, which can only be used
     for creating devices by the super-user.

     The special targets supported on NetBSD/hp300 are:

     std       Standard devices
     local     Configuration specific devices

     Please note that any hash marks (``#'') in the following list of support-
     ed device targets must be replaced by digits when calling MAKEDEV:

     Tapes:
       ct#         HP300 HP-IB cartridge tape, see ct(4)
       mt#         (Magnetic) 9-track reel tape
       st#         Exabyte tape, see st(4)

     Disks:
       ccd#        ``concatenated'' pseudo-disks, see ccd(4)
       md#         Memory pseudo-disk devices, see md(4)
       raid#       RAIDframe disk driver, see raid(4)
       rd#         HP300 HP-IB disks, see rd(4)
       sd#         HP300 SCSI disks, see sd(4)
       vnd#        ``file'' pseudo-disks, see vnd(4)

     Terminal multiplexors:
       dca#        HP200/300 single port serial interface, see dca(4)
       dcm#        HP200/300 4 port serial mux interface, see dcm(4)
       apci#       HP400 4 port serial mux interface, see apci(4)

     Pseudo terminals:
       pty#        Set of 62 master and slave pseudo terminals, see pty(4)
       opty        First 16 ptys, to save inodes on install media

     wscons:
       ttyE#       Wscons consoles
       wskbd#      Wscons keyboard events, see wskbd(4)
       wsmouse#    Wscons mouse events, see wsmouse(4)
       wsmux#      Wscons events multiplexor, see wsmux(4)
       wsfont#     Console font control

     Special purpose devices:
       clockctl    Clock control for non root users, see clockctl(4)
       fd          File descriptors, see fd(4)
       grf#        Raw interface to HP300 graphics devices, see grf(4)
       ite#        Terminal emulator interface to HP300 graphics devices, see
                   ite(4)
       hil         HP300 HIL input devices, see hil(4)
       bpf#        Packet filter, see bpf(4)
       tun#        Network tunnel driver, see tun(4)
       lkm         Loadable kernel modules interface, see lkm(4)
       ipl         IPilter control
       random      Random number generator
       scsibus#    SCSI busses, see scsi(4), scsictl(8)


FILES

     /dev                special device files directory
     /dev/MAKEDEV        script described in this man page
     /dev/MAKEDEV.local  script for site specific devices


DIAGNOSTICS

     If the script reports an error that is difficult to understand, you can
     get more debugging output by using
           sh -x MAKEDEV argument.


SEE ALSO

     intro(4), config(8), mknod(8)


HISTORY

     The MAKEDEV command appeared in 4.2BSD.


BUGS

     This man page is generated automatically from the same sources as
     /dev/MAKEDEV, in which the device files are not always sorted, which may
     result in an unusual (non-alphabetical) order.

NetBSD 1.6                     October 19, 1997                              2