Re: UART question

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On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 07:46:25AM +0000, Vincent DEFERT wrote:
> Ok, so NetBSD:
> 
> - creates tons of nodes for devices that are NOT physically present in the
> machine (i.e. most of /dev)
> - does NOT create nodes for devices that are physically present (e.g. UART)
> - though sometimes, it does, for some reason (e.g. I2C)
> 
> I'm lost. I can't find any rationale behind those behaviours. :(
> Could someone explain, please?

Normally, if you copy /dev/MAKEDEV in /etc, remove all the leaves in
/dev (but keeping /dev that will be used as a mount point), when
booting, /dev is dynamically populated with the nodes corresponding to
the devices found (according to your compiled kernel i.e. to the
devices declared in the kernel config).
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