From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gH82C-0003Vf-QO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:56:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gH82C-0003LW-30 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:56:48 -0400 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:56:07 +0000 Message-Id: <20181029135607.4485-3-stefanha@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20181029135607.4485-1-stefanha@redhat.com> References: <20181029135607.4485-1-stefanha@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/2] nvdimm: Add docs hint for Linux driver name List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , Peter Maydell , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Fam Zheng , Kees Cook From: Kees Cook I spent way too much time trying to figure out why the emulated NVDIMM was missing under Linux. In an effort to help others who might be looking for these kinds of things in the future, include a hint. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Message-id: 20181018201351.GA25286@beast Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi --- docs/nvdimm.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/nvdimm.txt b/docs/nvdimm.txt index 5f158a6170..7231c2d78f 100644 --- a/docs/nvdimm.txt +++ b/docs/nvdimm.txt @@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ Multiple vNVDIMM devices can be created if multiple pairs of "-object" and "-device" are provided. For above command line options, if the guest OS has the proper NVDIMM -driver, it should be able to detect a NVDIMM device which is in the -persistent memory mode and whose size is $NVDIMM_SIZE. +driver (e.g. "CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=y" under Linux), it should be able to +detect a NVDIMM device which is in the persistent memory mode and whose +size is $NVDIMM_SIZE. Note: -- 2.17.2