diff --git a/meta-hpe/meta-gxp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-gxp_2020.10.inc b/meta-hpe/meta-gxp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-gxp_2020.10.inc
index d8f45ed..c8231c0 100644
--- a/meta-hpe/meta-gxp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-gxp_2020.10.inc
+++ b/meta-hpe/meta-gxp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-gxp_2020.10.inc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # repo during parse
 SRCREV = "7e035b9bf331426919aa993a6bb1de3c837e5d3c"
 UBRANCH = "v2020.10-gxp-openbmc"
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/HewlettPackard/gxp-uboot.git;branch=${UBRANCH}"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/HewlettPackard/gxp-uboot.git;branch=${UBRANCH};protocol=https"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"