MAKEDEV(8)         OpenBSD System Manager's Manual (PowerPC)        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
     the common special files.  See special(8) 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.  There are three special de-
     vice names, all, std and local. If given, all creates device files for
     all devices on PowerPC.  If units are expected for a device MAKEDEV sup-
     plies the standard numbers.  The std argument creates the standard de-
     vices for PowerPC.  Finally local is for devices specific to the local
     site, and executes the shell file MAKEDEV.local.

     PowerPC supports the following devices.  Where a device name is followed
     by a hash sign ("#"), the hash sign must be replaced by a unit number.

     Pseudo-names
     all     All known devices for PowerPC.
     std     The standard devices (console, drum, fd/*, klog, kmem, mem, null,
             stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero)
     local   Configuration specific devices

     Device-names
     bpf#    Berkeley packet filters
     ccd#    Concatenated disk drives
     cd#     SCSI CD-ROM drives
     ch#     SCSI media changer drives
     fd#     Floppy disk drives
     ipl     IPFilter log
     lkm     Loadable kernel modules.
     pty#    Set of 16 master and slave pseudo terminals
     raid#   RAIDframe disk drives
     random  inkernel random number generator
     rd#     "Ramdisk" pseudo-disks
     sd#     SCSI disk drives
     ss#     SCSI scanners
     st#     SCSI tape drives
     tty#    Serial ports
     tun#    Network tunnel devices
     uk#     ``unknown SCSI'' devices
     usb#    USB control devices
     uhid#   USB generic HID devices
     ulpt#   USB printer devices
     urio#   USB Diamond Multimedia Rio 500
     ugen#   USB generic devices
     utty#   USB serial ports
     vnd#    "File" pseudo-disks
     wd#     IDE disk drives
     wskbd#  WSCONS keyboard devices
     wsmouse#
             WSCONS mouse devices
     xfs#    XFS filesystem devices

FILES
     /dev  The special file directory.

SEE ALSO
     intro(4), config(8), mknod(8), special(8)

OpenBSD 2.9                    January 27, 2001                              1
