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]

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>

I do see there is an xtensa patch 2 years ago:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-April/178467.html

Thanks,
Fengguang