Setting up the host machine

As every good device driver developer knows, a host machine is absolutely necessary.
Even if the embedded devices are getting more powerful nowadays (and the ESPRESSObin
is one of these), there are some resource-consuming tasks where a host machine can help.
That's why, in this section, we're going to show how to set up our host machine.

The host machine we decide to use could be a normal PC or a virtualized one—they are equivalent—but the important thing is that it must run a GNU/Linux-based OS.