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+Contains procedures that interact with the OpenPower nest chipset.
+
+## To Build
+```
+To build this package, do the following steps:
+
+    1. ./bootstrap.sh
+    2. ./configure ${CONFIGURE_FLAGS}
+    3. make
+
+To full clean the repository again run `./bootstrap.sh clean`.
+```