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

[Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 02:15:27PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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/

It looks you are using xtensa-defconfig, while the error here is
caught only in xtensa-common_defconfig (attached).

Thanks,
Fengguang

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