diff --git a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat_rawdev.rst b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat_rawdev.rst
index 1a4b0e03e..4b7fe8a8f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat_rawdev.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat_rawdev.rst
@@ -72,3 +72,14 @@ them to a suitable DPDK-supported kernel driver. When querying the status
 of the devices, they will appear under the category of "Misc (rawdev)
 devices", i.e. the command ``dpdk-devbind.py --status-dev misc`` can be
 used to see the state of those devices alone.
+
+Device Probing and Initialization
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Once bound to a suitable kernel device driver, the HW devices will be found
+as part of the PCI scan done at application initialization time. No vdev
+parameters need to be passed to create or initialize the device.
+
+Once probed successfully, the device will appear as a ``rawdev``, that is a
+"raw device type" inside DPDK, and can be accessed using APIs from the
+``rte_rawdev`` library.
diff --git a/drivers/raw/ioat/ioat_rawdev.c b/drivers/raw/ioat/ioat_rawdev.c
index d9fc3091a..d13391dd5 100644
--- a/drivers/raw/ioat/ioat_rawdev.c
+++ b/drivers/raw/ioat/ioat_rawdev.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  * Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation
  */
 
+#include <rte_cycles.h>
 #include <rte_bus_pci.h>
 #include <rte_rawdev_pmd.h>
 
@@ -26,15 +27,101 @@ static struct rte_pci_driver ioat_pmd_drv;
 static int
 ioat_rawdev_create(const char *name, struct rte_pci_device *dev)
 {
-	RTE_SET_USED(name);
-	RTE_SET_USED(dev);
+	static const struct rte_rawdev_ops ioat_rawdev_ops = {
+	};
+
+	struct rte_rawdev *rawdev = NULL;
+	struct rte_ioat_rawdev *ioat = NULL;
+	int ret = 0;
+	int retry = 0;
+
+	if (!name) {
+		IOAT_PMD_ERR("Invalid name of the device!");
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
+
+	/* Allocate device structure */
+	rawdev = rte_rawdev_pmd_allocate(name, sizeof(struct rte_ioat_rawdev),
+					 dev->device.numa_node);
+	if (rawdev == NULL) {
+		IOAT_PMD_ERR("Unable to allocate raw device");
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
+
+	rawdev->dev_ops = &ioat_rawdev_ops;
+	rawdev->device = &dev->device;
+	rawdev->driver_name = dev->device.driver->name;
+
+	ioat = rawdev->dev_private;
+	ioat->rawdev = rawdev;
+	ioat->regs = dev->mem_resource[0].addr;
+	ioat->ring_size = 0;
+	ioat->desc_ring = NULL;
+	ioat->status_addr = rte_malloc_virt2iova(ioat) +
+			offsetof(struct rte_ioat_rawdev, status);
+
+	/* do device initialization - reset and set error behaviour */
+	if (ioat->regs->chancnt != 1)
+		IOAT_PMD_ERR("%s: Channel count == %d\n", __func__,
+				ioat->regs->chancnt);
+
+	if (ioat->regs->chanctrl & 0x100) { /* locked by someone else */
+		IOAT_PMD_WARN("%s: Channel appears locked\n", __func__);
+		ioat->regs->chanctrl = 0;
+	}
+
+	ioat->regs->chancmd = RTE_IOAT_CHANCMD_SUSPEND;
+	rte_delay_ms(1);
+	ioat->regs->chancmd = RTE_IOAT_CHANCMD_RESET;
+	rte_delay_ms(1);
+	while (ioat->regs->chancmd & RTE_IOAT_CHANCMD_RESET) {
+		ioat->regs->chainaddr = 0;
+		rte_delay_ms(1);
+		if (++retry >= 200) {
+			IOAT_PMD_ERR("%s: cannot reset device. CHANCMD=0x%"PRIx8", CHANSTS=0x%"PRIx64", CHANERR=0x%"PRIx32"\n",
+					__func__,
+					ioat->regs->chancmd,
+					ioat->regs->chansts,
+					ioat->regs->chanerr);
+			ret = -EIO;
+		}
+	}
+	ioat->regs->chanctrl = RTE_IOAT_CHANCTRL_ANY_ERR_ABORT_EN |
+			RTE_IOAT_CHANCTRL_ERR_COMPLETION_EN;
+
 	return 0;
+
+cleanup:
+	if (rawdev)
+		rte_rawdev_pmd_release(rawdev);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int
 ioat_rawdev_destroy(const char *name)
 {
-	RTE_SET_USED(name);
+	int ret;
+	struct rte_rawdev *rdev;
+
+	if (!name) {
+		IOAT_PMD_ERR("Invalid device name");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	rdev = rte_rawdev_pmd_get_named_dev(name);
+	if (!rdev) {
+		IOAT_PMD_ERR("Invalid device name (%s)", name);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	/* rte_rawdev_close is called by pmd_release */
+	ret = rte_rawdev_pmd_release(rdev);
+	if (ret)
+		IOAT_PMD_DEBUG("Device cleanup failed");
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/raw/ioat/rte_ioat_rawdev.h b/drivers/raw/ioat/rte_ioat_rawdev.h
index e77406403..c3216a174 100644
--- a/drivers/raw/ioat/rte_ioat_rawdev.h
+++ b/drivers/raw/ioat/rte_ioat_rawdev.h
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
  * @b EXPERIMENTAL: these structures and APIs may change without prior notice
  */
 
+#include <rte_memory.h>
+#include <rte_ioat_spec.h>
+
 /** Name of the device driver */
 #define IOAT_PMD_RAWDEV_NAME rawdev_ioat
 /** String reported as the device driver name by rte_rawdev_info_get() */
@@ -21,4 +24,21 @@
 /** Name used to adjust the log level for this driver */
 #define IOAT_PMD_LOG_NAME "rawdev.ioat"
 
+/**
+ * @internal
+ * Structure representing a device instance
+ */
+struct rte_ioat_rawdev {
+	struct rte_rawdev *rawdev;
+	volatile struct rte_ioat_registers *regs;
+	phys_addr_t status_addr;
+	phys_addr_t ring_addr;
+
+	unsigned short ring_size;
+	struct rte_ioat_desc *desc_ring;
+
+	/* to report completions, the device will write status back here */
+	volatile uint64_t status __rte_cache_aligned;
+};
+
 #endif
