diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/conf/machine/include/imx-digi-base.inc b/meta-digi-arm/conf/machine/include/imx-digi-base.inc
index e77519d18..5629e3a6c 100644
--- a/meta-digi-arm/conf/machine/include/imx-digi-base.inc
+++ b/meta-digi-arm/conf/machine/include/imx-digi-base.inc
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ include conf/machine/include/digi-defaults.inc
 
 UBOOT_MAKE_TARGET = "u-boot.bin"
 UBOOT_SUFFIX = "bin"
+UBOOT_PADDING = "2"
 
 # Flash image types
 IMAGE_FSTYPES += "sum.jffs2 ubifs"