diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_%.bbappend b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_%.bbappend
index 5a9ceafa1..c8ba2530d 100644
--- a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_%.bbappend
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018 Digi International, Inc.
 
-# Tag rel_imx_4.9.51_8qxp_beta
-SRCBRANCH = "imx_4.9.51_imx8_beta2"
-SRCREV = "4352f717fe643c1aaed3feb55931d92d3b83027a"
 SRC_URI_append = " \
     file://0001-cc8x-configure-DDRC-for-Micron-MT53B256M32D1.patch \
 "
diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_git.bb b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_git.bb
index fe379bc2c..a9c8a2478 100644
--- a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_git.bb
+++ b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_git.bb
@@ -6,13 +6,9 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 SECTION = "BSP"
 
-inherit native deploy
-DEPENDS = "zlib-native"
+require imx-mkimage_git.inc
 
-IMX_MKIMAGE_SRC ?= "git://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-mkimage.git;protocol=https"
-SRCBRANCH ?= "imx_4.9.51_imx8_beta1"
-SRC_URI = "${IMX_MKIMAGE_SRC};branch=${SRCBRANCH}"
-SRCREV = "da676d6783943fa94238f4ab21e71ec25ac31b24"
+inherit native deploy
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_git.inc b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_git.inc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..82519f97c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/imx-mkimage/imx-mkimage_git.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2017-2018 NXP
+
+IMX_MKIMAGE_SRC ?= "git://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-mkimage.git;protocol=https"
+SRCBRANCH = "imx_4.9.88_imx8qxp_beta2"
+SRC_URI = "${IMX_MKIMAGE_SRC};branch=${SRCBRANCH}"
+SRCREV = "5c18f544c460747daed2844714c49685ed6ce897"
+
+DEPENDS = "zlib-native openssl-native"