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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] eal: expose rte_eal_using_phys_addrs
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:44:06 +0200
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21/06/2017 01:36, Gaetan Rivet:
> This function was previously private to the EAL layer.
> Other subsystems requires it, such as the PCI bus.
> 
> This function is only exposed for linuxapps.

Why exposing it only for Linux?
Every API should be common, even if it is not implemented for FreeBSD.