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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ * Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation
+ */
+
+#ifndef EAL_ALARM_PRIVATE_H
+#define EAL_ALARM_PRIVATE_H
+
+#include <inttypes.h>
+
+/*
+ * FreeBSD needs a back-channel communication mechanism between interrupt and
+ * alarm thread, because on FreeBSD, timer period is set up inside the interrupt
+ * API and not inside alarm API like on Linux.
+ */
+
+int
+eal_alarm_get_timeout_ns(uint64_t *val);
+
+#endif // EAL_ALARM_PRIVATE_H