+ * This function is private to the EAL.
+ */
+int rte_eal_hugepage_init(void);
+
+/**
+ * Creates memory mapping in secondary process
+ * i.e. hugepages on Linux and
+ * contigmem on BSD.
+ *
+ * This function is private to the EAL.
+ */
+int rte_eal_hugepage_attach(void);
+
+/**
+ * Detaches all memory mappings from a process.
+ *
+ * This function is private to the EAL.
+ */
+int rte_eal_memory_detach(void);
+
+/**
+ * Find a bus capable of identifying a device.
+ *
+ * @param str
+ * A device identifier (PCI address, virtual PMD name, ...).
+ *
+ * @return
+ * A valid bus handle if found.
+ * NULL if no bus is able to parse this device.
+ */
+struct rte_bus *rte_bus_find_by_device_name(const char *str);
+
+/**
+ * Create the unix channel for primary/secondary communication.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * 0 on success;
+ * (<0) on failure.
+ */
+int rte_mp_channel_init(void);
+
+/**
+ * Primary/secondary communication cleanup.
+ */
+void rte_mp_channel_cleanup(void);
+
+/**
+ * @internal
+ * Parse a device string and store its information in an
+ * rte_devargs structure.
+ *
+ * A device description is split by layers of abstraction of the device:
+ * bus, class and driver. Each layer will offer a set of properties that
+ * can be applied either to configure or recognize a device.
+ *
+ * This function will parse those properties and prepare the rte_devargs
+ * to be given to each layers for processing.
+ *
+ * Note: if the "data" field of the devargs points to devstr,
+ * then no dynamic allocation is performed and the rte_devargs
+ * can be safely discarded.
+ *
+ * Otherwise ``data`` will hold a workable copy of devstr, that will be
+ * used by layers descriptors within rte_devargs. In this case,
+ * any rte_devargs should be cleaned-up before being freed.
+ *
+ * @param da
+ * rte_devargs structure to fill.
+ *
+ * @param devstr
+ * Device string.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * 0 on success.
+ * Negative errno values on error (rte_errno is set).
+ */
+int
+rte_devargs_layers_parse(struct rte_devargs *devargs,
+ const char *devstr);
+
+/*
+ * probe a device at local process.
+ *
+ * @param devargs
+ * Device arguments including bus, class and driver properties.
+ * @param new_dev
+ * new device be probed as output.
+ * @return
+ * 0 on success, negative on error.
+ */
+int local_dev_probe(const char *devargs, struct rte_device **new_dev);
+
+/**
+ * Hotplug remove a given device from a specific bus at local process.