1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass
index 87f02654fa..b1e7ac05c2 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel-uboot.bbclass
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# fitImage kernel compression algorithm
+FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG ?= "gzip"
+FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG_EXTENSION ?= ".gz"
+
 uboot_prep_kimage() {
         if [ -e arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux ]; then
                 vmlinux_path="arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux"
@@ -11,8 +15,8 @@ uboot_prep_kimage() {
                 linux_comp="none"
         else
                 vmlinux_path="vmlinux"
-                linux_suffix=".gz"
-                linux_comp="gzip"
+                linux_suffix="${FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG_EXTENSION}"
+                linux_comp="${FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG}"
         fi
 
         [ -n "${vmlinux_path}" ] && ${OBJCOPY} -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S "${vmlinux_path}" linux.bin