After building a poky-tiny image we should attempt to boot it in qemu. As it's tiny I don't think the image has a ssh daemon but we could have a new qemu runner that uses the qemu serial console to interact with the device (with the caveat that files can't be copied). Just a boot-and-login test will be a vast improvement.
This should be part of the automated runtime testing and I am assigning this to Lucian.
Lucian, any update on this?
Test merged in commit: 3d1106ea4bd41f80af2dfa43e9d8918aa5dfaa16
Verified on master: 547b189951283e1ea1fabd135d32bcb59124d8c3