Labgrid Exporters - Windows Support?

[HarryKrause]

Hi community, I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I'm a Labgrid beginner and couldn't find any concrete answers online. We're looking at using Labgrid and are already planning on using a Linux node as the co-ordinator, but we're wondering if it's possible to use Windows machines as exporters? I don't see anything within the exporter configuration that would explicitly prevent this, but I also know Windows isn't formally supported either.

Some of our use-cases have Windows-specific drivers that we need to interface with, so we are wondering if it's possible to hook up a Windows node to gain access to USB ports that utilize these drivers.

Any links to documentation that I may have missed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Emantor]

Labgrid currently havily relies on SSH connections from client to exporter and we assume that we can call the utilities directly from the users shell. We are also not interested in windows support (since we don't use windows). I am not against merging patches if they don't interfere too heavily.

[HarryKrause]

@Emantor thanks for the response. Could you point me to the utilities that you're referring to? If it's something we can configure on a Windows node without having to update Labgrid at all, that would be ideal. Otherwise we can investigate creating a patch for your review.

[Emantor]

Most of this is contained in driver code, i.e.

labgrid/labgrid/driver/fastbootdriver.py

Line 49 in f81f479

prefix = self.fastboot.command_prefix + [ self.tool, "-s", option ]

constructs the prefix, where self.fastboot is the corresponding resource and self.fastboot.prefix_command will contain the appropriate ssh command to run the command on the exporter.