diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/yocto-poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index ee3e9a0..6e3e81e 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
     image = d.getVar('INITRAMFS_IMAGE', True)
     if image:
-        d.appendVarFlag('do_bundle_initramfs', 'depends', ' ${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}:do_rootfs')
+        d.appendVarFlag('do_bundle_initramfs', 'depends', ' ${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}:do_image_complete')
 
     # NOTE: setting INITRAMFS_TASK is for backward compatibility
     #       The preferred method is to set INITRAMFS_IMAGE, because
@@ -217,6 +217,14 @@
 	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}
+
+		# Module.symvers gets updated during the 
+		# building of the kernel modules. We need to
+		# update this in the shared workdir since some
+		# external kernel modules has a dependency on
+		# other kernel modules and will look at this
+		# file to do symbol lookups
+		cp Module.symvers ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}/
 	else
 		bbnote "no modules to compile"
 	fi
@@ -309,18 +317,9 @@
 		cp -fR include/generated/* $kerneldir/include/generated/
 	fi
 
-	# When ARCH is set to i386 or x86_64, we need to map ARCH to the real name of src
-	# dir (x86) under arch/ of kenrel tree, so that we can find correct source to copy.
-
-	if [ "${ARCH}" = "i386" ] || [ "${ARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then
-		KERNEL_SRCARCH=x86
-	else
-		KERNEL_SRCARCH=${ARCH}
-	fi
-
-	if [ -d arch/${KERNEL_SRCARCH}/include/generated ]; then
-		mkdir -p $kerneldir/arch/${KERNEL_SRCARCH}/include/generated/
-		cp -fR arch/${KERNEL_SRCARCH}/include/generated/* $kerneldir/arch/${KERNEL_SRCARCH}/include/generated/
+	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
 }
 
@@ -347,7 +346,8 @@
 	if [ -f "${WORKDIR}/defconfig" ] && [ ! -f "${B}/.config" ]; then
 		cp "${WORKDIR}/defconfig" "${B}/.config"
 	fi
-	eval ${KERNEL_CONFIG_COMMAND}
+
+	${KERNEL_CONFIG_COMMAND}
 }
 
 do_savedefconfig() {
@@ -405,7 +405,19 @@
 PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_prepend = "split_kernel_packages "
 
 python split_kernel_packages () {
-    do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/firmware', file_regex='^(.*)\.(bin|fw|cis|dsp)$', output_pattern='kernel-firmware-%s', description='Firmware for %s', recursive=True, extra_depends='')
+    do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/firmware', file_regex='^(.*)\.(bin|fw|cis|csp|dsp)$', output_pattern='kernel-firmware-%s', description='Firmware for %s', recursive=True, extra_depends='')
+}
+
+# Many scripts want to look in arch/$arch/boot for the bootable
+# image. This poses a problem for vmlinux based booting. This 
+# task arranges to have vmlinux appear in the normalized directory
+# location.
+do_kernel_link_vmlinux() {
+	if [ ! -d "${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot" ]; then
+		mkdir ${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot
+	fi
+	cd ${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot
+	ln -sf ../../../vmlinux
 }
 
 do_strip() {
@@ -490,6 +502,7 @@
 		ln -sf ${initramfs_base_name}.bin ${initramfs_symlink_name}.bin
 	fi
 }
+do_deploy[cleandirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR}"
 do_deploy[dirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR} ${B}"
 do_deploy[prefuncs] += "package_get_auto_pr"