Section 4 of the manual describes special files (devices).
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- fdc
- PC architecture floppy disk controller driver
- fdt
- Flattened Device Tree support
- fdt_pinctrl
- FDT I/O pin multiplexing support
- fdtbus
- Flattened Device Tree bus driver
- fe
- Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based Ethernet adapters
- ffclock
- FFCLOCK — Feed-forward system clock
- fglrx
- proprietary ATI RADEON and FireGL display driver
- filemon
- the filemon device
- firewire
- IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus
- full
- always full device
- full
- the full device
- fuse
- Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) device
- fwe
- Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
- fwip
- IP over FireWire driver
- fwohci
- OHCI FireWire chipset device driver
- fxp
- Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet device driver
- gbde
- Geom Based Disk Encryption
- gdb
- external kernel debugger
- gem
- ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
- geom
- GEOM — modular disk I/O request transformation framework
- geom_fox
- GEOM based basic disk multipathing
- geom_linux_lvm
- GEOM based Linux LVM logical volume mapping
- geom_map
- GEOM module that maps defined items as separate partitions
- geom_uzip
- GEOM based compressed disk images and partitions
- gif
- generic tunnel interface
- glide
- Glide video driver
- glxiic
- Geode LX CS5536 I2C controller driver
- glxsb
- Geode LX Security Block crypto accelerator
- gpio
- gpiobus — GPIO bus system
- gpiobus
- GPIO bus system
- gpioiic
- GPIO I2C bit-banging device driver
- gpiokeys
- GPIO keys device driver
- gpioled
- GPIO LED generic device driver
- gpioths
- driver for DHTxx and AM320x temperature and humidity sensors
- gre
- encapsulating network device
- h_ertt
- Enhanced Round Trip Time Khelp module
- hd
- MFM/IDE hard disk devices
- hifn
- Hifn 7751/7951/7811/7955/7956 crypto accelerator
- hme
- Sun Microelectronics STP2002-STQ Ethernet interfaces device driver
- hpet
- High Precision Event Timer driver
- hpsa
- HP Smart Array SCSI driver
- hpt27xx
- HighPoint RocketRAID 27xx SAS 6Gb/s HBA card driver
- hptiop
- HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx/4xxx device driver
- hptmv
- HighPoint RocketRAID 182x device driver
- hptnr
- HighPoint DC Series Data Center HBA card driver
- hptrr
- HighPoint RocketRAID device driver
- hv_kvp
- Hyper-V Key Value Pair Driver
- hv_netvsc
- Hyper-V Network Virtual Service Consumer
- hv_storvsc
- Hyper-V Storage Virtual Service Consumer
- hv_utils
- Hyper-V Utilities Driver
- hv_vmbus
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) Driver
- hv_vss
- Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Service API
- hwpmc
- Hardware Performance Monitoring Counter support
- i8254
- attimer — i8254 Programmable Interval Timer (AT Timer) driver
- iavf
- Intel Adaptive Virtual Function driver
- ichsmb
- Intel ICH SMBus controller driver
- ichwd
- device driver for the Intel ICH watchdog interrupt timer
- icmp
- Internet Control Message Protocol
- icmp6
- Internet Control Message Protocol for IPv6
- ida
- Compaq Intelligent Drive Array Controllers
- ieee1394
- firewire — IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus
- if_ae
- ae — Attansic/Atheros L2 FastEthernet controller driver
- if_age
- age — Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet driver
- if_alc
- alc — Atheros AR813x/AR815x/AR816x/AR817x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
- if_ale
- ale — Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
- if_an
- an — Aironet Communications 4500/4800 wireless network adapter driver
- if_ath
- ath — Atheros IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver
- if_ath_pci
- ath_pci — Atheros PCI device glue
- if_aue
- aue — ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver
- if_axe
- axe — ASIX Electronics AX88x7x/760 USB Ethernet driver
- if_bce
- bce — QLogic NetXtreme II (BCM5706/5708/5709/5716) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_bfe
- bfe — Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet Device Driver
- if_bge
- bge — Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
- if_bnxt
- bnxt — Broadcom NetXtreme-C/NetXtreme-E Family Ethernet driver
- if_bridge
- network bridge device
- if_bwi
- bwi — Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver
- if_bwn
- bwn — Broadcom BCM43xx SoftMAC IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver
- if_bxe
- bxe — QLogic NetXtreme II Ethernet 10Gb PCIe adapter driver
- if_cas
- cas — Sun Cassini/Cassini+ and National Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn Gigabit Ethernet driver
- if_cc
- cxgbe — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver
- if_ccv
- cxgbev — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet VF driver
- if_cdce
- cdce — USB Communication Device Class Ethernet (CDC ECM/NCM) driver
- if_cue
- cue — CATC USB-EL1210A USB Ethernet driver
- if_cxgb
- cxgb — Chelsio T3 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_cxgbe
- cxgbe — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver
- if_cxgbev
- cxgbev — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet VF driver
- if_cxl
- cxgbe — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver
- if_cxlv
- cxgbev — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet VF driver
- if_dc
- dc — DEC/Intel 21143 and clone 10/100 Ethernet driver
- if_de
- de — DEC DC21x4x Ethernet device driver
- if_disc
- disc — software discard network interface
- if_ed
- ed — NE-2000 and WD-80x3 Ethernet driver
- if_edsc
- edsc — Ethernet discard network interface
- if_em
- em — Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_enc
- enc — Encapsulating Interface
- if_epair
- epair — A pair of virtual back-to-back connected Ethernet interfaces
- if_et
- et — Agere ET1310 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet driver
- if_fwe
- fwe — Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
- if_fwip
- fwip — IP over FireWire driver
- if_fxp
- fxp — Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet device driver