diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
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+inherit linux-kernel-base kernel-module-split
+
+PROVIDES += "virtual/kernel"
+DEPENDS += "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}binutils virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc kmod-native depmodwrapper-cross bc-native"
+
+S = "${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}"
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
+KBUILD_OUTPUT = "${B}"
+OE_TERMINAL_EXPORTS += "KBUILD_OUTPUT"
+
+# we include gcc above, we dont need virtual/libc
+INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
+
+KERNEL_IMAGETYPE ?= "zImage"
+INITRAMFS_IMAGE ?= ""
+INITRAMFS_TASK ?= ""
+INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE ?= ""
+
+python __anonymous () {
+    import re
+
+    kerneltype = d.getVar('KERNEL_IMAGETYPE', True)
+
+    d.setVar("KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE", re.sub(r'\.gz$', '', kerneltype))
+
+    image = d.getVar('INITRAMFS_IMAGE', True)
+    if image:
+        d.appendVarFlag('do_bundle_initramfs', 'depends', ' ${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}:do_rootfs')
+
+    # NOTE: setting INITRAMFS_TASK is for backward compatibility
+    #       The preferred method is to set INITRAMFS_IMAGE, because
+    #       this INITRAMFS_TASK has circular dependency problems
+    #       if the initramfs requires kernel modules
+    image_task = d.getVar('INITRAMFS_TASK', True)
+    if image_task:
+        d.appendVarFlag('do_configure', 'depends', ' ${INITRAMFS_TASK}')
+}
+
+# Here we pull in all various kernel image types which we support.
+#
+# In case you're wondering why kernel.bbclass inherits the other image
+# types instead of the other way around, the reason for that is to
+# maintain compatibility with various currently existing meta-layers.
+# By pulling in the various kernel image types here, we retain the
+# original behavior of kernel.bbclass, so no meta-layers should get
+# broken.
+#
+# KERNEL_CLASSES by default pulls in kernel-uimage.bbclass, since this
+# used to be the default behavior when only uImage was supported. This
+# variable can be appended by users who implement support for new kernel
+# image types.
+
+KERNEL_CLASSES ?= " kernel-uimage "
+inherit ${KERNEL_CLASSES}
+
+# Old style kernels may set ${S} = ${WORKDIR}/git for example
+# We need to move these over to STAGING_KERNEL_DIR. We can't just
+# create the symlink in advance as the git fetcher can't cope with
+# the symlink.
+do_unpack[cleandirs] += " ${S} ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} ${B} ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}"
+do_clean[cleandirs] += " ${S} ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} ${B} ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}"
+base_do_unpack_append () {
+    s = d.getVar("S", True)
+    if s[-1] == '/':
+        # drop trailing slash, so that os.symlink(kernsrc, s) doesn't use s as directory name and fail
+        s=s[:-1]
+    kernsrc = d.getVar("STAGING_KERNEL_DIR", True)
+    if s != kernsrc:
+        bb.utils.mkdirhier(kernsrc)
+        bb.utils.remove(kernsrc, recurse=True)
+        if d.getVar("EXTERNALSRC", True):
+            # With EXTERNALSRC S will not be wiped so we can symlink to it
+            os.symlink(s, kernsrc)
+        else:
+            import shutil
+            shutil.move(s, kernsrc)
+            os.symlink(kernsrc, s)
+}
+
+inherit kernel-arch deploy
+
+PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^kernel-module-.*"
+PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^kernel-image-.*"
+PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^kernel-firmware-.*"
+
+export OS = "${TARGET_OS}"
+export CROSS_COMPILE = "${TARGET_PREFIX}"
+
+KERNEL_PRIORITY ?= "${@int(d.getVar('PV',1).split('-')[0].split('+')[0].split('.')[0]) * 10000 + \
+                       int(d.getVar('PV',1).split('-')[0].split('+')[0].split('.')[1]) * 100 + \
+                       int(d.getVar('PV',1).split('-')[0].split('+')[0].split('.')[-1])}"
+
+KERNEL_RELEASE ?= "${KERNEL_VERSION}"
+
+# Where built kernel lies in the kernel tree
+KERNEL_OUTPUT ?= "arch/${ARCH}/boot/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}"
+KERNEL_IMAGEDEST = "boot"
+
+#
+# configuration
+#
+export CMDLINE_CONSOLE = "console=${@d.getVar("KERNEL_CONSOLE",1) or "ttyS0"}"
+
+KERNEL_VERSION = "${@get_kernelversion_headers('${B}')}"
+
+KERNEL_LOCALVERSION ?= ""
+
+# kernels are generally machine specific
+PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
+
+# U-Boot support
+UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT ?= "20008000"
+UBOOT_LOADADDRESS ?= "${UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT}"
+
+# Some Linux kernel configurations need additional parameters on the command line
+KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS ?= ""
+
+# For the kernel, we don't want the '-e MAKEFLAGS=' in EXTRA_OEMAKE.
+# We don't want to override kernel Makefile variables from the environment
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = ""
+
+KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE ??= ""
+
+# Define where the kernel headers are installed on the target as well as where
+# they are staged.
+KERNEL_SRC_PATH = "/usr/src/kernel"
+
+copy_initramfs() {
+	echo "Copying initramfs into ./usr ..."
+	# In case the directory is not created yet from the first pass compile:
+	mkdir -p ${B}/usr
+	# Find and use the first initramfs image archive type we find
+	rm -f ${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.cpio
+	for img in cpio.gz cpio.lz4 cpio.lzo cpio.lzma cpio.xz; do
+		if [ -e "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.$img" ]; then
+			cp ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.$img ${B}/usr/.
+			case $img in
+			*gz)
+				echo "gzip decompressing image"
+				gunzip -f ${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.$img
+				break
+				;;
+			*lz4)
+				echo "lz4 decompressing image"
+				lz4 -df ${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.$img
+				break
+				;;
+			*lzo)
+				echo "lzo decompressing image"
+				lzop -df ${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.$img
+				break
+				;;
+			*lzma)
+				echo "lzma decompressing image"
+				lzma -df ${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.$img
+				break
+				;;
+			*xz)
+				echo "xz decompressing image"
+				xz -df ${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.$img
+				break
+				;;
+			esac
+		fi
+	done
+	echo "Finished copy of initramfs into ./usr"
+}
+
+INITRAMFS_BASE_NAME = "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-initramfs-${PV}-${PR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}"
+INITRAMFS_BASE_NAME[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"
+do_bundle_initramfs () {
+	if [ ! -z "${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}" -a x"${INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE}" = x1 ]; then
+		echo "Creating a kernel image with a bundled initramfs..."
+		copy_initramfs
+		if [ -e ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} ] ; then
+			mv -f ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} ${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.bak
+		fi
+		use_alternate_initrd=CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.cpio
+		kernel_do_compile
+		mv -f ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} ${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.initramfs
+		mv -f ${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.bak ${KERNEL_OUTPUT}
+		# Update install area
+		echo "There is kernel image bundled with initramfs: ${B}/${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.initramfs"
+		install -m 0644 ${B}/${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.initramfs ${D}/boot/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-initramfs-${MACHINE}.bin
+		echo "${B}/${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.initramfs"
+	fi
+}
+
+python do_devshell_prepend () {
+    os.environ["LDFLAGS"] = ''
+}
+
+addtask bundle_initramfs after do_install before do_deploy
+
+kernel_do_compile() {
+	unset CFLAGS CPPFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS MACHINE
+	# The $use_alternate_initrd is only set from
+	# do_bundle_initramfs() This variable is specifically for the
+	# case where we are making a second pass at the kernel
+	# compilation and we want to force the kernel build to use a
+	# different initramfs image.  The way to do that in the kernel
+	# is to specify:
+	# make ...args... CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=some_other_initramfs.cpio
+	if [ "$use_alternate_initrd" = "" ] && [ "${INITRAMFS_TASK}" != "" ] ; then
+		# The old style way of copying an prebuilt image and building it
+		# is turned on via INTIRAMFS_TASK != ""
+		copy_initramfs
+		use_alternate_initrd=CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.cpio
+	fi
+	oe_runmake ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE} ${KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE} CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS} $use_alternate_initrd
+	if test "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE}.gz" = "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}"; then
+		gzip -9c < "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE}" > "${KERNEL_OUTPUT}"
+	fi
+}
+
+do_compile_kernelmodules() {
+	unset CFLAGS CPPFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS MACHINE
+	if (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' ${B}/.config); then
+		oe_runmake -C ${B} ${PARALLEL_MAKE} modules CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS}
+	else
+		bbnote "no modules to compile"
+	fi
+}
+addtask compile_kernelmodules after do_compile before do_strip
+
+kernel_do_install() {
+	#
+	# First install the modules
+	#
+	unset CFLAGS CPPFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS MACHINE
+	if (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' .config); then
+		oe_runmake DEPMOD=echo INSTALL_MOD_PATH="${D}" modules_install
+		rm "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build"
+		rm "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/source"
+		# If the kernel/ directory is empty remove it to prevent QA issues
+		rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/kernel"
+	else
+		bbnote "no modules to install"
+	fi
+
+	#
+	# Install various kernel output (zImage, map file, config, module support files)
+	#
+	install -d ${D}/${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}
+	install -d ${D}/boot
+	install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} ${D}/${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	install -m 0644 System.map ${D}/boot/System.map-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	install -m 0644 .config ${D}/boot/config-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	install -m 0644 vmlinux ${D}/boot/vmlinux-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	[ -e Module.symvers ] && install -m 0644 Module.symvers ${D}/boot/Module.symvers-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/modules-load.d
+	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/modprobe.d
+}
+do_install[prefuncs] += "package_get_auto_pr"
+
+addtask shared_workdir after do_compile before do_compile_kernelmodules
+addtask shared_workdir_setscene
+
+do_shared_workdir_setscene () {
+	exit 1
+}
+
+emit_depmod_pkgdata() {
+	# Stash data for depmod
+	install -d ${PKGDESTWORK}/kernel-depmod/
+	echo "${KERNEL_VERSION}" > ${PKGDESTWORK}/kernel-depmod/kernel-abiversion
+	cp ${B}/System.map ${PKGDESTWORK}/kernel-depmod/System.map-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+}
+
+PACKAGEFUNCS += "emit_depmod_pkgdata"
+
+do_shared_workdir () {
+	cd ${B}
+
+	kerneldir=${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}
+	install -d $kerneldir
+
+	#
+	# Store the kernel version in sysroots for module-base.bbclass
+	#
+
+	echo "${KERNEL_VERSION}" > $kerneldir/kernel-abiversion
+
+	# Copy files required for module builds
+	cp System.map $kerneldir/System.map-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	cp Module.symvers $kerneldir/
+	cp .config $kerneldir/
+	mkdir -p $kerneldir/include/config
+	cp include/config/kernel.release $kerneldir/include/config/kernel.release
+
+	# We can also copy over all the generated files and avoid special cases
+	# like version.h, but we've opted to keep this small until file creep starts
+	# to happen
+	if [ -e include/linux/version.h ]; then
+		mkdir -p $kerneldir/include/linux
+		cp include/linux/version.h $kerneldir/include/linux/version.h
+	fi
+
+	# As of Linux kernel version 3.0.1, the clean target removes
+	# arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o which is present in
+	# KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE, making it required to build external modules.
+	if [ ${ARCH} = "powerpc" ]; then
+		mkdir -p $kerneldir/arch/powerpc/lib/
+		cp arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o $kerneldir/arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o
+	fi
+
+	if [ -d include/generated ]; then
+		mkdir -p $kerneldir/include/generated/
+		cp -fR include/generated/* $kerneldir/include/generated/
+	fi
+
+	if [ -d arch/${ARCH}/include/generated ]; then
+		mkdir -p $kerneldir/arch/${ARCH}/include/generated/
+		cp -fR arch/${ARCH}/include/generated/* $kerneldir/arch/${ARCH}/include/generated/
+	fi
+}
+
+# We don't need to stage anything, not the modules/firmware since those would clash with linux-firmware
+sysroot_stage_all () {
+	:
+}
+
+KERNEL_CONFIG_COMMAND ?= "oe_runmake_call -C ${S} O=${B} oldnoconfig || yes '' | oe_runmake -C ${S} O=${B} oldconfig"
+
+kernel_do_configure() {
+	# fixes extra + in /lib/modules/2.6.37+
+	# $ scripts/setlocalversion . => +
+	# $ make kernelversion => 2.6.37
+	# $ make kernelrelease => 2.6.37+
+	touch ${B}/.scmversion ${S}/.scmversion
+
+	if [ "${S}" != "${B}" ] && [ -f "${S}/.config" ] && [ ! -f "${B}/.config" ]; then
+		mv "${S}/.config" "${B}/.config"
+	fi
+
+	# Copy defconfig to .config if .config does not exist. This allows
+	# recipes to manage the .config themselves in do_configure_prepend().
+	if [ -f "${WORKDIR}/defconfig" ] && [ ! -f "${B}/.config" ]; then
+		cp "${WORKDIR}/defconfig" "${B}/.config"
+	fi
+	eval ${KERNEL_CONFIG_COMMAND}
+}
+
+do_savedefconfig() {
+	oe_runmake -C ${B} savedefconfig
+}
+do_savedefconfig[nostamp] = "1"
+addtask savedefconfig after do_configure
+
+inherit cml1
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_compile do_install do_configure
+
+# kernel-base becomes kernel-${KERNEL_VERSION}
+# kernel-image becomes kernel-image-${KERNEL_VERISON}
+PACKAGES = "kernel kernel-base kernel-vmlinux kernel-image kernel-dev kernel-modules"
+FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES_kernel-base = "/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/modules.order /lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/modules.builtin"
+FILES_kernel-image = "/boot/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}*"
+FILES_kernel-dev = "/boot/System.map* /boot/Module.symvers* /boot/config* ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} /lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build"
+FILES_kernel-vmlinux = "/boot/vmlinux*"
+FILES_kernel-modules = ""
+RDEPENDS_kernel = "kernel-base"
+# Allow machines to override this dependency if kernel image files are 
+# not wanted in images as standard
+RDEPENDS_kernel-base ?= "kernel-image"
+PKG_kernel-image = "kernel-image-${@legitimize_package_name('${KERNEL_VERSION}')}"
+RDEPENDS_kernel-image += "${@base_conditional('KERNEL_IMAGETYPE', 'vmlinux', 'kernel-vmlinux', '', d)}"
+PKG_kernel-base = "kernel-${@legitimize_package_name('${KERNEL_VERSION}')}"
+RPROVIDES_kernel-base += "kernel-${KERNEL_VERSION}"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_kernel = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_kernel-base = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_kernel-image = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_kernel-modules = "1"
+DESCRIPTION_kernel-modules = "Kernel modules meta package"
+
+pkg_postinst_kernel-base () {
+	if [ ! -e "$D/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}" ]; then
+		mkdir -p $D/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	fi
+	if [ -n "$D" ]; then
+		depmodwrapper -a -b $D ${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	else
+		depmod -a ${KERNEL_VERSION}
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst_kernel-image () {
+	update-alternatives --install /${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} /${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${KERNEL_VERSION} ${KERNEL_PRIORITY} || true
+}
+
+pkg_postrm_kernel-image () {
+	update-alternatives --remove ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${KERNEL_VERSION} || true
+}
+
+PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_prepend = "split_kernel_packages "
+
+python split_kernel_packages () {
+    do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/firmware', file_regex='^(.*)\.(bin|fw|cis|dsp)$', output_pattern='kernel-firmware-%s', description='Firmware for %s', recursive=True, extra_depends='')
+}
+
+do_strip() {
+	if [ -n "${KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS}" ]; then
+		if [ "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}" != "vmlinux" ]; then
+			bbwarn "image type will not be stripped (not supported): ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}"
+			return
+		fi
+
+		cd ${B}
+		headers=`"$CROSS_COMPILE"readelf -S ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} | \
+			  grep "^ \{1,\}\[[0-9 ]\{1,\}\] [^ ]" | \
+			  sed "s/^ \{1,\}\[[0-9 ]\{1,\}\] //" | \
+			  gawk '{print $1}'`
+
+		for str in ${KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS}; do {
+			if [ "$headers" != *"$str"* ]; then
+				bbwarn "Section not found: $str";
+			fi
+
+			"$CROSS_COMPILE"strip -s -R $str ${KERNEL_OUTPUT}
+		}; done
+
+		bbnote "KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS is set, stripping sections:" \
+			"${KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS}"
+	fi;
+}
+do_strip[dirs] = "${B}"
+
+addtask do_strip before do_sizecheck after do_kernel_link_vmlinux
+
+# Support checking the kernel size since some kernels need to reside in partitions
+# with a fixed length or there is a limit in transferring the kernel to memory
+do_sizecheck() {
+	if [ ! -z "${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE}" ]; then
+		invalid=`echo ${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE} | sed 's/[0-9]//g'`
+		if [ -n "$invalid" ]; then
+			die "Invalid KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE: ${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE}, should be an integerx (The unit is Kbytes)"
+		fi
+		size=`du -ks ${B}/${KERNEL_OUTPUT} | awk '{ print $1}'`
+		if [ $size -ge ${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE} ]; then
+			die "This kernel (size=$size(K) > ${KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE}(K)) is too big for your device. Please reduce the size of the kernel by making more of it modular."
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+do_sizecheck[dirs] = "${B}"
+
+addtask sizecheck before do_install after do_strip
+
+KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME ?= "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${PKGE}-${PKGV}-${PKGR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}"
+# Don't include the DATETIME variable in the sstate package signatures
+KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"
+KERNEL_IMAGE_SYMLINK_NAME ?= "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${MACHINE}"
+MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME ?= "modules-${PKGE}-${PKGV}-${PKGR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}"
+MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"
+MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME ?= "${MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}.tgz"
+# Don't include the DATETIME variable in the sstate package signatures
+MODULE_TARBALL_SYMLINK_NAME ?= "modules-${MACHINE}.tgz"
+MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY ?= "1"
+
+kernel_do_deploy() {
+	install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} ${DEPLOYDIR}/${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}.bin
+	if [ ${MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY} = "1" ] && (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' .config); then
+		mkdir -p ${D}/lib
+		tar -cvzf ${DEPLOYDIR}/${MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME} -C ${D} lib
+		ln -sf ${MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME} ${DEPLOYDIR}/${MODULE_TARBALL_SYMLINK_NAME}
+	fi
+
+	ln -sf ${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${KERNEL_IMAGE_SYMLINK_NAME}.bin
+	ln -sf ${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}
+
+	cp ${COREBASE}/meta/files/deploydir_readme.txt ${DEPLOYDIR}/README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt
+
+	cd ${B}
+	# Update deploy directory
+	if [ -e "${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.initramfs" ]; then
+		echo "Copying deploy kernel-initramfs image and setting up links..."
+		initramfs_base_name=${INITRAMFS_BASE_NAME}
+		initramfs_symlink_name=${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-initramfs-${MACHINE}
+		install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT}.initramfs ${DEPLOYDIR}/${initramfs_base_name}.bin
+		cd ${DEPLOYDIR}
+		ln -sf ${initramfs_base_name}.bin ${initramfs_symlink_name}.bin
+	fi
+}
+do_deploy[dirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR} ${B}"
+do_deploy[prefuncs] += "package_get_auto_pr"
+
+addtask deploy after do_populate_sysroot
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_deploy
+