Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add "Understanding QEMU devices" blog post

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/01/2018 12:27, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 26.01.2018 15:46, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 01/26/2018 06:40 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 26/01/2018 10:19, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> Last July, Eric Blake wrote a nice summary for newcomers about what
>>>> QEMU has to do to emulate devices for the guests. So far, we missed
>>>> to integrate this somewhere into the QEM web site or wiki, so let's
>>>> publish this now as a nice blog post for the users.
>>>
>>> It's very nice!  Some proofreading and corrections follow.
>>
>> Thanks for digging up my original email, and enhancing it (I guess the
>> fact that I don't blog very often, and stick to email, means that I rely
>> on others helping to polish my gems for the masses).
> 
> Sure ... Would you like to give it a try this time and continue with the
> patch, or shall I continue and send a v2?
> 
>>>> +++ b/_posts/2018-01-26-understanding-qemu-devices.md
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
>>>> +---
>>>> +layout: post
>>>> +title:  "Understanding QEMU devices"
>>>> +date:   2018-01-26 10:00:00 +0100
>>
>> That's when you're posting it online, but should it also mention when I
>> first started these thoughts in email form?
> 
> At least in the header we should have the current date, or the blog post
> will not show up at the top of the blog. Not sure whether there is an
> alternate field for the original date ... maybe we could rather add an
> "originally written in 2017 ..." sentence at the bottom of the post instead?

I don't think it's relevant, as long as it's brought up to date when we
post it to the web.

Paolo