diff --git a/meta-phosphor/classes/phosphor-software-manager-mmc.bbclass b/meta-phosphor/classes/phosphor-software-manager-mmc.bbclass
index ca5fca8..f30f0c0 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/classes/phosphor-software-manager-mmc.bbclass
+++ b/meta-phosphor/classes/phosphor-software-manager-mmc.bbclass
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dactive-bmc-max-allowed=2"
 EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dmedia-dir='/media'"
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Doptional-images='image-hostfw'"
 
 RDEPENDS_phosphor-software-manager-updater-mmc += " \
     gptfdisk \