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+/1.0.0-beta2.tar.gz
diff --git a/libocxl.spec b/libocxl.spec
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+Name:           libocxl
+Version:        1.0.0
+Release:        0.1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Allows to implement a user-space driver for an OpenCAPI accelerator
+
+License:        ASL 2.0
+URL:            https://github.com/OpenCAPI/libocxl
+Source0:        https://github.com/OpenCAPI/libocxl/archive/%{version}-beta2.tar.gz
+
+ExclusiveArch:  ppc64le
+
+BuildRequires:  gcc
+BuildRequires:  doxygen
+
+%description
+Access library which allows to implement a user-space
+driver for an OpenCAPI accelerator.
+
+%package        devel
+Summary:        Development files for %{name}
+Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+Recommends:     %{name}-docs
+
+%package        docs
+Summary:        Documentation files for %{name}
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description    devel
+The *-devel package contains header file and man pages for
+developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+%description    docs
+The *-docs package contains doxygen pages for
+developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1 -n %{name}-%{version}-beta2
+
+%build
+LDFLAGS="%{__global_ldflags}" CFLAGS="%{optflags}" CXXFLAGS="%{optflags}" make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1
+
+%install
+%make_install PREFIX=%{_prefix}
+
+%files
+%license COPYING
+%doc README.md
+%{_libdir}/libocxl.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%{_includedir}/*
+%{_libdir}/libocxl.so
+%{_mandir}/man3/*
+
+%files docs
+%{_pkgdocdir}
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Apr 10 2018 michel normand <normand@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1.0.0-0.1
+- new package and spec file of libocxl from upstream
+  url: https://github.com/OpenCAPI/libocxl
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+SHA512 (1.0.0-beta2.tar.gz) = 424974f21691110eaf78c81dcb5691b0c3011bb45e444444933a02a40bac4834a301655598eb67f1492a526af8e4498ad9951aa2632d9c97a9a685a941099f8d