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+/1.0.0-beta2.tar.gz
+/libocxl-1.0.0.tar.gz
 /1.1.0.tar.gz
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+# libocxl
+
+The libocxl package;
+access library which allows to implement a user-space
+driver for an OpenCAPI accelerator.