diff --git a/meta-ibm/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf b/meta-ibm/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
index 9a74f91..947ddf7 100644
--- a/meta-ibm/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
+++ b/meta-ibm/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 PHOSPHOR_MRW_LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
 PHOSPHOR_MRW_LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=e3fc50a88d0a364313df4b21ef20c29e"
-PHOSPHOR_MRW_URI = "git://github.com/open-power/witherspoon-xml"
+PHOSPHOR_MRW_URI = "git://github.com/open-power/witherspoon-xml;branch=master;protocol=https"
 PHOSPHOR_MRW_REV = "c622cb5a5dd3ebc2a4eef558d1b70740f914e6f7"
 
 # Inhibit phosphor-hwmon-config-mrw