diff --git a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/bluez-firmware-rpidistro/bluez-firmware-rpidistro_git.bb b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/bluez-firmware-rpidistro/bluez-firmware-rpidistro_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b16b2c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/bluez-firmware-rpidistro/bluez-firmware-rpidistro_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+SUMMARY = "Linux kernel Bluetooth firmware files from Raspbian distribution"
+DESCRIPTION = "Updated Bluetooth firmware files for RaspberryPi hardware. \
+RPi-Distro obtains these directly from Cypress; they are not submitted \
+to linux-firmware for general use."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware"
+SECTION = "kernel"
+
+# Upstream has provided[^1] licensing information in the Debian
+# copyright file.  The wording of the Cypress license subsequently
+# changed in linux-firmware.
+#
+# Rather than make assumptions about what's supposed to be what, we'll
+# use the license implied by the source of these files, named to avoid
+# conflicts with linux-firmware.
+#
+# [^1]: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware/issues/1
+LICENSE = "Firmware-cypress-rpidistro"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
+    file://LICENCE.cypress-rpidistro;md5=852f9d10cbedba1f6c439729bd0617b4 \
+"
+
+# These are not common licenses, set NO_GENERIC_LICENSE for them
+# so that the license files will be copied from fetched source
+NO_GENERIC_LICENSE[Firmware-cypress-rpidistro] = "LICENCE.cypress-rpidistro"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware"
+SRCREV = "ade2bae1aaaebede09abb8fb546f767a0e4c7804"
+PV = "0.0+git${SRCPV}"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit allarch
+
+CLEANBROKEN = "1"
+
+do_extract_lic() {
+    # Extract the license from the Debian copyright file
+    sed -e '1,23d' ${S}/debian/copyright > ${S}/LICENCE.cypress-rpidistro
+}
+# Must be before both do_install and do_populate_lic.  Putting it before
+# their common ancestor works; other approaches do not.
+addtask extract_lic after do_unpack before do_patch
+
+do_compile() {
+    :
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm
+
+    cp LICENCE.cypress-rpidistro ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware
+    install -m 0644 broadcom/BCM434*.hcd ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/
+}
+
+PACKAGES = "\
+    ${PN}-cypress-license \
+    ${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd \
+    ${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd \
+"
+
+LICENSE_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd = "Firmware-cypress-rpidistro"
+LICENSE_${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd = "Firmware-cypress-rpidistro"
+LICENSE_${PN}-cypress-license = "Firmware-cypress-rpidistro"
+
+FILES_${PN}-cypress-license = "\
+    ${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/LICENCE.cypress-rpidistro \
+"
+FILES_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd = "\
+    ${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/BCM43430A1.hcd \
+"
+FILES_${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd = "\
+    ${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/BCM4345C0.hcd \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd += "${PN}-cypress-license"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd += "${PN}-cypress-license"
+RCONFLICTS_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd = "linux-firmware-bcm43430a1-hcd"
+RREPLACES_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd = "linux-firmware-bcm43430a1-hcd"
+RCONFLICTS_${PN}-bcm43435c0-hcd = "linux-firmware-bcm4345c0-hcd"
+RREPLACES_${PN}-bcm43435c0-hcd = "linux-firmware-bcm4345c0-hcd"
+
+# Firmware files are generally not run on the CPU, so they can be
+# allarch despite being architecture specific
+INSANE_SKIP = "arch"
diff --git a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware-rpidistro/linux-firmware-rpidistro_git.bb b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware-rpidistro/linux-firmware-rpidistro_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f63c32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware-rpidistro/linux-firmware-rpidistro_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+SUMMARY = "Linux kernel firmware files from Raspbian distribution"
+DESCRIPTION = "Updated firmware files for RaspberryPi hardware. \
+RPi-Distro obtains these directly from Cypress; they are not submitted \
+to linux-firmware for general use."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree"
+SECTION = "kernel"
+
+# In maintained upstream linux-firmware:
+# * brcmfmac43430-sdio falls under LICENCE.cypress
+# * brcmfmac43455-sdio falls under LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx
+#
+# It is likely[^1] that both of these should be under LICENCE.cypress.
+# Further, at this time the text of LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx is the same
+# in linux-firmware and RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree, but this may
+# change.
+#
+# Rather than make assumptions about what's supposed to be what, we'll
+# use the license implied by the source of these files, named to avoid
+# conflicts with linux-firmware.
+#
+# [^1]: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware/issues/1
+LICENSE = "\
+    Firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx-rpidistro \
+    & WHENCE \
+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
+    file://LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx;md5=3160c14df7228891b868060e1951dfbc \
+    file://WHENCE;md5=a9c2c217f513c20e1d16b384b3e2c12d \
+"
+
+# These are not common licenses, set NO_GENERIC_LICENSE for them
+# so that the license files will be copied from fetched source
+NO_GENERIC_LICENSE[Firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx-rpidistro] = "LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx"
+NO_GENERIC_LICENSE[WHENCE] = "WHENCE"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree"
+SRCREV = "b518de45ced519e8f7a499f4778100173402ae43"
+PV = "0.0+git${SRCPV}"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit allarch
+
+CLEANBROKEN = "1"
+
+do_compile() {
+    :
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm
+
+    cp ./LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx-rpidistro
+
+    # Replace outdated linux-firmware files with updated ones from
+    # raspbian firmware-nonfree. Raspbian adds blobs and nvram
+    # definitions that are also necessary so copy those too.
+    for fw in brcmfmac43430-sdio brcmfmac43455-sdio ; do
+        install -m 0644 brcm/${fw}.* ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/
+    done
+}
+
+PACKAGES = "\
+    ${PN}-broadcom-license \
+    ${PN}-bcm43430 \
+    ${PN}-bcm43455 \
+"
+
+LICENSE_${PN}-bcm43430 = "Firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx-rpidistro"
+LICENSE_${PN}-bcm43455 = "Firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx-rpidistro"
+LICENSE_${PN}-broadcom-license = "Firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx-rpidistro"
+FILES_${PN}-broadcom-license = "${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx-rpidistro"
+FILES_${PN}-bcm43430 = "${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430*"
+FILES_${PN}-bcm43455 = "${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455*"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-bcm43430 += "${PN}-broadcom-license"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-bcm43455 += "${PN}-broadcom-license"
+RCONFLICTS_${PN}-bcm43430 = "\
+    linux-firmware-bcm43430 \
+    linux-firmware-raspbian-bcm43430 \
+"
+RREPLACES_${PN}-bcm43430 = "\
+    linux-firmware-bcm43430 \
+    linux-firmware-raspbian-bcm43430 \
+"
+RCONFLICTS_${PN}-bcm43455 = "\
+    linux-firmware-bcm43455 \
+    linux-firmware-raspbian-bcm43455 \
+"
+RREPLACES_${PN}-bcm43455 = "\
+    linux-firmware-bcm43455 \
+    linux-firmware-raspbian-bcm43455 \
+"
+
+# Firmware files are generally not run on the CPU, so they can be
+# allarch despite being architecture specific
+INSANE_SKIP = "arch"
diff --git a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_%.bbappend b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_%.bbappend
deleted file mode 100644
index c0f9e17..0000000
--- a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_%.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-# Augments upstream linux-firmware with additional and updated images
-# from Raspbian:
-# https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree
-# https://github.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware
-
-SRC_URI_append_rpi = " \
-    git://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree;destsuffix=raspbian-nf;name=raspbian-nf \
-    git://github.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware;destsuffix=raspbian-bluez;name=raspbian-bluez \
-"
-
-SRCREV_raspbian-nf = "86e88fbf0345da49555d0ec34c80b4fbae7d0cd3"
-SRCREV_raspbian-bluez = "e28cd7ee8615de33aa7ec2b41d556af61a4a2707"
-SRCREV_FORMAT_rpi = "default+raspbian-nf+raspbian-bluez"
-
-do_install_append_rpi() {
-    install -d ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/
-
-    # Replace outdated linux-firmware files with updated ones from
-    # raspbian firmware-nonfree. Raspbian adds blobs and nvram
-    # definitions that are also necessary so copy those too.
-    for fw in brcmfmac43430-sdio brcmfmac43455-sdio ; do
-        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/raspbian-nf/brcm/${fw}.* ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/
-    done
-
-    # Add missing Cypress Bluetooth files from raspbian bluez-firmware
-    for fw in BCM43430A1.hcd BCM4345C0.hcd ; do
-        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/raspbian-bluez/broadcom/${fw} ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/
-    done
-}
-
-# NB: Must prepend, else these become empty and their content is left in
-# the roll-up package which precedes them.
-PACKAGES_prepend_rpi = "\
-    ${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd \
-    ${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd \
-"
-
-# ${PN}-bcm43455 package and brcmfmac43455-sdio from linux-firmware
-# is already included in the oe-core recipe, so don't add it to PACKAGES
-# again, the version from raspbian-nf seems a bit newer:
-# $ strings ./1_0.0+gitAUTOINC+d114732723+86e88fbf03+e28cd7ee86-r0/git/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin | grep Ver
-# Version: 7.45.18.0 CRC: d7226371 Date: Sun 2015-03-01 07:31:57 PST Ucode Ver: 1026.2 FWID: 01-6a2c8ad4
-# $ strings ./1_0.0+gitAUTOINC+d114732723+86e88fbf03+e28cd7ee86-r0/raspbian-nf/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin | grep Ver
-# Version: 7.45.154 (r684107 CY) CRC: b1f79383 Date: Tue 2018-02-27 03:18:17 PST Ucode Ver: 1043.2105 FWID 01-4fbe0b04
-
-# For additional Broadcom
-LICENSE_${PN}-bcm43455 = "Firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx"
-
-FILES_${PN}-bcm43430_append_rpi = " \
-  ${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt \
-"
-FILES_${PN}-bcm43455 = " \
-  ${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.* \
-"
-
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-bcm43455 += "${PN}-broadcom-license"
-
-LICENSE_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd = "Firmware-cypress"
-LICENSE_${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd = "Firmware-cypress"
-
-FILES_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd = " \
-  ${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/BCM43430A1.hcd \
-"
-FILES_${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd = " \
-  ${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware/brcm/BCM4345C0.hcd \
-"
-
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-bcm43430a1-hcd += "${PN}-cypress-license"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-bcm4345c0-hcd += "${PN}-cypress-license"
diff --git a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi-rt_4.14.bb b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi-rt_4.14.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a990fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi-rt_4.14.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.14.81"
+
+SRCREV = "acf578d07d57480674d5361df9171fe9528765cb"
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;branch=rpi-4.14.y-rt \
+    file://0001-menuconfig-check-lxdiaglog.sh-Allow-specification-of.patch \
+    "
+
+require linux-raspberrypi.inc
diff --git a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
index 03acfb4..01f2425 100644
--- a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
+++ b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
 CMDLINE_DEBUG ?= ""
 CMDLINE_append = " ${CMDLINE_DEBUG}"
 
-KERNEL_INITRAMFS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE", "1", "1", "", d)}'
-
 KERNEL_MODULE_AUTOLOAD += "${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "pitft28r", "stmpe-ts", "", d)}"
 
 # A LOADADDR is needed when building a uImage format kernel. This value is not
@@ -101,7 +99,7 @@
     # Localversion
     kernel_configure_variable LOCALVERSION "\"\""
 
-    if [ ! -z "${KERNEL_INITRAMFS}" ]; then
+    if [ "${INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE}" = "1" ]; then
         kernel_configure_variable OVERLAY_FS y
         kernel_configure_variable SQUASHFS y
         kernel_configure_variable UBIFS_FS y
@@ -109,7 +107,7 @@
 
     # Activate the configuration options for VC4
     VC4GRAPHICS="${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "vc4graphics", "1", "0", d)}"
-    if [ ${VC4GRAPHICS} = "1" ]; then
+    if [ "${VC4GRAPHICS}" = "1" ]; then
         kernel_configure_variable I2C_BCM2835 y
         kernel_configure_variable DRM y
         kernel_configure_variable DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION y
diff --git a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.14.bb b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.14.bb
index 54936fa..d11b599 100644
--- a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.14.bb
+++ b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.14.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.14.68"
+LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.14.79"
 
-SRCREV = "8c8666ff6c1254d325cfa300d16f9928b3f31fc0"
+SRCREV = "9ca74c53cbda1f104bce3b33850fd3bf33eb3793"
 SRC_URI = " \
     git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;branch=rpi-4.14.y \
     file://0001-menuconfig-check-lxdiaglog.sh-Allow-specification-of.patch \