nvdimm: Add docs hint for Linux driver name

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 <keescook@chromium.org>
Message-id: 20181018201351.GA25286@beast
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Kees Cook 2018-10-18 13:13:51 -07:00 committed by Stefan Hajnoczi
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@ -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: