+/**
+ * Get an attribute value from implementation.
+ * Attribute is an opaque handle agreed upon between application and PMD.
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param attr_name
+ * Opaque object representing an attribute in implementation.
+ * @param attr_value [out]
+ * Opaque response to the attribute value. In case of error, this remains
+ * untouched. This is double pointer of void type.
+ * @return
+ * 0 for success
+ * !0 Error; attr_value remains untouched in case of error.
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_get_attr_t)(struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ const char *attr_name,
+ uint64_t *attr_value);
+
+/**
+ * Set an attribute value.
+ * Attribute is an opaque handle agreed upon between application and PMD.
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param attr_name
+ * Opaque object representing an attribute in implementation.
+ * @param attr_value
+ * Value of the attribute represented by attr_name
+ * @return
+ * 0 for success
+ * !0 Error
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_set_attr_t)(struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ const char *attr_name,
+ const uint64_t attr_value);
+
+/**
+ * Retrieve a set of statistics from device.
+ * Note: Being a raw device, the stats are specific to the device being
+ * implemented thus represented as xstats.
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param ids
+ * The stat ids to retrieve
+ * @param values
+ * The returned stat values
+ * @param n
+ * The number of id values and entries in the values array
+ * @return
+ * The number of stat values successfully filled into the values array
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_xstats_get_t)(const struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ const unsigned int ids[], uint64_t values[], unsigned int n);
+
+/**
+ * Resets the statistic values in xstats for the device.
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_xstats_reset_t)(struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ const uint32_t ids[],
+ uint32_t nb_ids);
+
+/**
+ * Get names of extended stats of an raw device
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param xstats_names
+ * Array of name values to be filled in
+ * @param size
+ * Number of values in the xstats_names array
+ * @return
+ * When size >= the number of stats, return the number of stat values filled
+ * into the array.
+ * When size < the number of available stats, return the number of stats
+ * values, and do not fill in any data into xstats_names.
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_xstats_get_names_t)(const struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ struct rte_rawdev_xstats_name *xstats_names,
+ unsigned int size);
+
+/**
+ * Get value of one stats and optionally return its id
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param name
+ * The name of the stat to retrieve
+ * @param id
+ * Pointer to an unsigned int where we store the stat-id.
+ * This pointer may be null if the id is not required.
+ * @return
+ * The value of the stat, or (uint64_t)-1 if the stat is not found.
+ * If the stat is not found, the id value will be returned as (unsigned)-1,
+ * if id pointer is non-NULL
+ */
+typedef uint64_t (*rawdev_xstats_get_by_name_t)(const struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ const char *name,
+ unsigned int *id);
+
+/**
+ * Get firmware/device-stack status.
+ * Implementation to allocate buffer for returning information.
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param status
+ * void block containing device specific status information
+ * @return
+ * 0 for success,
+ * !0 for failure, with undefined value in `status_info`
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_firmware_status_get_t)(struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ rte_rawdev_obj_t status_info);
+
+/**
+ * Get firmware version information
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param version_info
+ * void pointer to version information returned by device
+ * @return
+ * 0 for success,
+ * !0 for failure, with undefined value in `version_info`
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_firmware_version_get_t)(struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ rte_rawdev_obj_t version_info);
+
+/**
+ * Load firmware from a buffer (DMA'able)
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @param firmware_file
+ * file pointer to firmware area
+ * @return
+ * >0, ~0: for successful load
+ * <0: for failure
+ *
+ * @see Application may use 'firmware_version_get` for ascertaining successful
+ * load
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_firmware_load_t)(struct rte_rawdev *dev,
+ rte_rawdev_obj_t firmware_buf);
+
+/**
+ * Unload firmware
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Raw device pointer
+ * @return
+ * >0, ~0 for successful unloading
+ * <0 for failure in unloading
+ *
+ * Note: Application can use the `firmware_status_get` or
+ * `firmware_version_get` to get result of unload.
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_firmware_unload_t)(struct rte_rawdev *dev);
+
+/**
+ * Start rawdev selftest
+ *
+ * @return
+ * Return 0 on success
+ */
+typedef int (*rawdev_selftest_t)(uint16_t dev_id);
+