$Id: majors.i386,v 1.50 1998/09/21 22:04:07 msmith Exp $ Hopefully, this list will one day be obsoleted by DEVFS, but for now this is the current allocation of device major numbers. For local use, you are encouraged to use the reserved numbers. If you intend the driver to be available, send email to the hackers@freebsd.org mailing list to see about having a number reserved for you. The most "complete" version of this will be the one in FreeBSD-current. (see http://www.freebsd.org/ or from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/) blkdev name comments 0 wd ST506 disk controller (with IDE extensions) 1 wfd ATAPI Floppy client of "ata" 2 fd floppy disk 3 wt QIC-02/36 tape 4 da SCSI "direct acess" devices 5 sa SCSI "sequential access" devices 6 cd SCSI "cdrom" type 7 mcd Mitsumi CDROM interface 8 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel modules 9 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel modules 10 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel modules 11 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel modules 12 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel modules 13 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel modules 14 ?? reserved for local use 15 vn vnode disk device 16 scd Sony CDROM interface 17 matcd Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative(SB) CDROM interface 18 ata "device independent" ATA/IDE driver 19 wcdb ATAPI CDROM client of "ata" 21 ccd concatenated disk 22 gd Geometry disk. 24 wstb ATAPI tape client of "ata" 25 vinum RAID fs 26 sw VM internal swap device 27 myx Mylex RAID (ulf@alameda.net) 28 fla M-Systems DiskOnChip(r) chrdev name comments 0 cn console 1 ctty /dev/tty 2 mm /dev/mem,kmem,etc 3 wd ST506 disk controller (with IDE extensions) 4 swap /dev/drum 5 pts pseudo tty "tty" half 6 ptc pseudo tty "master" half 7 log system log 8 bqu B004 transputer board 9 fd floppy disk 10 wt QIC-02/36 tape 11 spigot Video capture? 12 sc syscons/pcvt virtual consoles 13 da SCSI "direct access devices" 14 sa SCSI "sequential access devices" 15 cd SCSI "CDROM type" 16 lpt PC parallel printer port 17 ch SCSI changer 18 su SCSI universal type 19 tw X-10 power interface 20 ?? reserved for local use 21 psm PS/2 Mouse 22 fd (/dev/stdin etc) 23 bpf Berkeley Packet Filter 24 pca PC speaker (/dev/pcaudio) 25 ?? was vat 26 spkr PC speaker (/dev/spkr) 27 mse Microsoft bus-mouse 28 sio 16450/16550 serial 29 mcd Mitsumi CDROM interface 30 snd sound driver system 31 pass SCSI "Application Pass-Thru" 32 lkmc Loadable Kernel Module Controller 33 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel Modules 34 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel Modules 35 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel Modules 36 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel Modules 37 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel Modules 38 lkm assigned to Loadable Kernel Modules 39 apm Advanced Power Management 40 ctx Cortex 41 ?? was socksys 42 cx Cronyx/Sigma serial adapter 43 vn vnode "disk" device 44 gp GPIB 45 scd Sony CDROM interface 46 matcd Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative(SB) CDROM interface 47 gsc Genius Scanner 48 cy Cyclades 49 ssc SCSI super device 50 card pcmcia cards 51 joy joystick 52 tun IP tunnel device 53 snp tty snoop 54 OLDnic ISDN system 55 OLDisdn ISDN system 56 OLDity ISDN system 57 OLDitel ISDN system 58 dgb Digiboard PC/Xe 59 OLDispy ISDN system 60 OLDnnic ISDN system 61 pt SCSI "processor type" 62 worm SCSI "worm type" 63 rc Riscom/8 driver 64 ?? Talisman 65 targ SCSI target sample driver 66 labpc National Instruments LabPC 67 meteor Matrox Meteor video capture 68 si Specialix SI/XIO (peter@freebsd.org) 69 wcd ATAPI CDROM client of "ata" 71 asc AmiScan driver 72 stl Stallion (cd1400 based) (gerg@stallion.oz.au) 73 ?? was qcam 74 ccd concatenated disk 75 stli Stallion (intelligent cdk based) (gerg@stallion.oz.au) 76 scc IBM Smart Capture Card (ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp) 77 cyy Cyclades Ye/PCI serial card 78 pci PCI bus 79 ipl IP Filter 80 xdcp Assigned to Chris Ficklin 81 rp RocketPort/Steve Gericke 82 ppi Generic Parallel I/O 83 can CAN16-2 CAN-PC Interface 84 ttxt Unitext teletext decoder (arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) 85 vesa VESA support device (j_mini@efn.org) 86 alog Industrial Computer Source AIO8-P driver 87 wfd ATAPI floppy client of "ata" 88 dpt DPT RAID Controller 89 pps Pulse-Per-Second timing interface 90 wst ATAPI tape client of "ata" 91 vinum RAID fs 92 bktr Bt848 video capture driver (hasty@star-gate.com) 93 coda CODA filesystem. 94 loran Loran-C Receiver 95 gd Geometry disk 96 altq alternate queueing (including cbq, red, wfq) 97 myx Mylex RAID controller (ulf@alameda.net) 98 loe Loopback pseudo-ethernet (sbabkin@dcn.att.com) 99 ct Cronyx/Tau serial adaptor 100 xrpu Xilinx Reprogrammable Processing Unit 101 dgm Digiboard PC/Xem 102 fla M-Systems DiskOnChip(r) 103 streams SVR4 Streams emulation 104 xpt CAM Transport Layer Services 105 iic I2C bus generic i/o 106 smb System Management Bus generic i/o 107 3dfx 3Dfx driver (shocking@prth.pgs.com) 108 id Intelligent Disk [Array] (md@doc.ic.ac.uk) 500 ?? entries from 500-600 are reserved for local use 600 ?? entries from 500-600 are reserved for local use