diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/kernel-fitimage.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/kernel-fitimage.bbclass
index b51882d..1bcb09c 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/kernel-fitimage.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/kernel-fitimage.bbclass
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@
 fitimage_emit_section_ramdisk() {
 
 	ramdisk_csum="${FIT_HASH_ALG}"
-	ramdisk_ctype="none"
 	ramdisk_loadline=""
 	ramdisk_entryline=""
 
@@ -218,24 +217,6 @@
 		ramdisk_entryline="entry = <${UBOOT_RD_ENTRYPOINT}>;"
 	fi
 
-	case $3 in
-		*.gz)
-			ramdisk_ctype="gzip"
-			;;
-		*.bz2)
-			ramdisk_ctype="bzip2"
-			;;
-		*.lzma)
-			ramdisk_ctype="lzma"
-			;;
-		*.lzo)
-			ramdisk_ctype="lzo"
-			;;
-		*.lz4)
-			ramdisk_ctype="lz4"
-			;;
-	esac
-
 	cat << EOF >> ${1}
                 ramdisk@${2} {
                         description = "${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}";
@@ -243,7 +224,7 @@
                         type = "ramdisk";
                         arch = "${UBOOT_ARCH}";
                         os = "linux";
-                        compression = "${ramdisk_ctype}";
+                        compression = "none";
                         ${ramdisk_loadline}
                         ${ramdisk_entryline}
                         hash@1 {