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Message-ID: <1456802127.21548.6.camel@ellerman.id.au>
Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:15:27 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	"kbuild-all@...org" <kbuild-all@...org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kbuild-all] Invalid CPU Type - valid names are: alpha, arm,
 x86, ia64, m68k, microblaze, mips, mips64, nios2, powerpc, ppc, s390, sh,
 sparc, sparc64, blackfin, avr32, nds32, or1k

On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 10:48 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:06:19AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Hi Geert,
> > 
> > > >         make.cross ARCH=xtensa
> > > > 
> > > > All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
> > > > 
> > > > > > Invalid CPU Type - valid names are: alpha, arm, x86, ia64, m68k, microblaze, mips, mips64, nios2, powerpc, ppc, s390, sh, sparc, sparc64, blackfin, avr32, nds32, or1k
> > > >    Usage: /usr/bin/mkimage -l image
> > > 
> > > Don't you just need to update mkimage to a version that does have
> > > xtensa support?
> > 
> > Yeah, thanks for the suggestion!
> > I'll upgrade the u-boot-tools package which contains /usr/bin/mkimage.
> 
> Hi Geert,
> 
> I've upgraded the Debian u-boot-tools to 2016.01+dfsg1-2:
> 
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

> > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> > / Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

> > > / Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
> +++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
> ii  u-boot-tools                         2016.01+dfsg1-2         amd64                   companion tools for Das U-Boot bootloader
> 
> But still find it not support xtensa..
> 
> $ strings /usr/bin/mkimage|g xtensa
> <EMPTY>

Hmm, true, same here.

Kisskb is building xtensa happily, there must be something in .config which
controls whether it uses mkimage?

  http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/12621125/
  http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/target/2029/

cheers