[OE-core] Do we have a package that installs the kernel headers and config into the target?

[Cui, Dexuan]

Daniel Lazzari wrote on 2012-04-07:
>>> On 04/05/2012 09:41 PM, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
>> Surely, the "standard" way is: we should write a recipe to
>> cross-compile and install the driver. But this is difficult to the
>> students:
>> 1) They're not familiar with Poky at all, and actually the downloaded
>> wifi driver's code here seems indeed complex.
>> 
>> 2) The students only have limited time so they intend to spend
>> most of the time on things that could make them win a prize or
>> money. :-)
>> So this actually makes Yocto less appealing to them though the
>> goal of Yocto is making developing on embedded easy...
>> 
>>> That said, there are valid use cases, but I don't consider this a
>>> particularly high priority at the moment. I'm happy to hear other
>>> thoughts on why this should be bumped in prio though.
>> Currently I have suggested them that they should manually copy
>> The kernel headers and .config into the target.
>> Hope this can work around the issue for them.
> 
> Any chance the students could cross compile the wifi module using
> an external toolchain?
We could try this.
But even I didn't try this before, so this needs efforts to find it out.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan