diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass
index 868e97d7a7..87f02654fa 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass
@@ -3,13 +3,19 @@ uboot_prep_kimage() {
 		vmlinux_path="arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux"
 		linux_suffix=""
 		linux_comp="none"
+	elif [ -e arch/${ARCH}/boot/vmlinuz.bin ]; then
+		rm -f linux.bin
+		cp -l arch/${ARCH}/boot/vmlinuz.bin linux.bin
+		vmlinux_path=""
+		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
+	[ -n "${vmlinux_path}" ] && ${OBJCOPY} -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S "${vmlinux_path}" linux.bin
 
 	if [ "${linux_comp}" != "none" ] ; then
 		gzip -9 linux.bin