but bitbake linux-yocto does deploy bzImage and the kernel modules into the tmp/deploy/images/<arch>/ directory.  bitbake doing this is quite helpful.


But, what if you want to use devtool (likely in the esdk setting) to do a kernel or module build and then do something *other* than build-image. 

For instance maybe you want to do a wic cp of the kernel into the boot partition or maybe you want to just copy the new modules to a target and test them quickly.