diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass
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+uboot_prep_kimage() {
+	if test -e arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux ; then
+		vmlinux_path="arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux"
+		linux_suffix=""
+		linux_comp="none"
+	else
+		vmlinux_path="vmlinux"
+		linux_suffix=".gz"
+		linux_comp="gzip"
+	fi
+
+	${OBJCOPY} -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S "${vmlinux_path}" linux.bin
+
+	if [ "${linux_comp}" != "none" ] ; then
+		gzip -9 linux.bin
+		mv -f "linux.bin${linux_suffix}" linux.bin
+	fi
+
+	echo "${linux_comp}"
+}