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 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core