Let us explore how to install a full Debian distribution on an emulated ARM926 machine with QEMU.  The consumer now have alternative choices for their devices. On the other hand, the developers can leverage the native compiler coming with the ARM Linux distribution to build their projects with less effort. No more cross-compiler is necessary now. You can also setup a build farm to speed up your native build with distcc.  The development requirement is almost identical to the desktop system.