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| 33.\" 34.\".ds RH "Adding New Devices 35.ne 2i 36.NH 37ADDING NEW SYSTEM SOFTWARE 38.PP 39This section is not for the novice, it describes 40some of the inner workings of the configuration process as --- 184 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 225file, it must also be added to the device configuration tables. These 226are located in ``/sys/vax/conf.c'', or similar for machines other than 227the VAX. If you don't understand what to add to this file, you should 228study an entry for an existing driver. 229Remember that the position in the 230device table specifies the major device number. 231The block major number is needed in the ``devices.machine'' file 232if the device is a disk. | 34.\" 35.\".ds RH "Adding New Devices 36.ne 2i 37.NH 38ADDING NEW SYSTEM SOFTWARE 39.PP 40This section is not for the novice, it describes 41some of the inner workings of the configuration process as --- 184 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 226file, it must also be added to the device configuration tables. These 227are located in ``/sys/vax/conf.c'', or similar for machines other than 228the VAX. If you don't understand what to add to this file, you should 229study an entry for an existing driver. 230Remember that the position in the 231device table specifies the major device number. 232The block major number is needed in the ``devices.machine'' file 233if the device is a disk. |
| 233.PP 234With the configuration information in place, your configuration 235file appropriately modified, and a system reconfigured and rebooted 236you should incorporate the shell commands needed to install the special 237files in the file system to the file ``/dev/MAKEDEV'' or 238``/dev/MAKEDEV.local''. This is discussed in the document ``Installing 239and Operating 4.4BSD''. | |