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On 02-11-2008 11:52, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> Being inspired by DejaGnu, I can also imagine a native host as an
> alternative solution for platforms without qemu support.
>
> - Build (minimal) environment not needing any native run and being able
>    to run on target.
> - Mount a target root as a chroot on native host via a NFS.
> - Using a ssh and chroot command, execute required code and get result
>    back.
>
> (Well, it would complicate life to Koen a bit.)
>
> It could perform any task not possible on build system:
> - run ldconfig
> - generate locales (may need swap on native host)
> - compile emacs macros
> ...

We do have sbrsh (from scratchbox fame) in OE, so one could write a 
class reusing scratchbox code to run such binaries on a network-attached 
target. Any volunteers for doing a proof-of-concept bbclass?

regards,

Koen