diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_%.bbappend b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_%.bbappend
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+# Copyright (C) 2022 Digi International
+
+# This is an excerpt from the *.bbappend in meta-imx, containing only the
+# minimum necessary changes for bitbake to use the SDMA firmware from the
+# firmware-imx recipe instead of this one
+
+# Use the latest version of sdma firmware in firmware-imx
+PACKAGES_remove = "${PN}-imx-sdma-license ${PN}-imx-sdma-imx6q ${PN}-imx-sdma-imx7d"