diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-imx_2009.08.bbappend b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-imx_2009.08.bbappend
index 90f311a24..633676f89 100644
--- a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-imx_2009.08.bbappend
+++ b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-imx_2009.08.bbappend
@@ -4,9 +4,25 @@ DESCRIPTION = "bootloader for Digi platforms"
 
 PR_append = "+${DISTRO}.r0"
 
-SRCREV_mxs = "${AUTOREV}"
-SRCREV_mx5 = "${AUTOREV}"
-SRC_URI = "${DIGI_LOG_GIT}u-boot-denx.git;protocol=git;branch=refs/heads/master"
+# Uncomment to build the from sources (internal use only)
+# UBOOT_BUILD_SRC ?= "1"
+
+SRCREV_mxs = "57dc7fb843484ff0099f6e5f5a2528a7a2dd1766"
+SRCREV_mx5 = "57dc7fb843484ff0099f6e5f5a2528a7a2dd1766"
+SRCREV_SHORT = "${@'${SRCREV}'[:7]}"
+
+# Checksums for 'u-boot-denx-${SRCREV_SHORT}.tar.gz' tarballs
+TARBALL_MD5    = "a6d29ccd750719b82c366b5cbc890212"
+TARBALL_SHA256 = "7b387f1e246e8c44cd561b68ba9c7182915e13b460b6f16b6b2013a6d6aaa302"
+
+SRC_URI_git = "${DIGI_LOG_GIT}u-boot-denx.git;protocol=git;branch=refs/heads/master"
+SRC_URI_tarball = " \
+        ${DIGI_MIRROR}/u-boot-denx-${SRCREV_SHORT}.tar.gz;md5sum=${TARBALL_MD5};sha256sum=${TARBALL_SHA256} \
+        "
+
+SRC_URI  = "${@base_conditional('UBOOT_BUILD_SRC', '1' , '${SRC_URI_git}', '${SRC_URI_tarball}', d)}"
+
+S  = "${@base_conditional('UBOOT_BUILD_SRC', '1' , '${WORKDIR}/git', '${WORKDIR}/u-boot-denx-${SRCREV_SHORT}', d)}"
 
 DEPENDS_mxs_ccardimx28js += "elftosb-native imx-bootlets-del"
 DEPENDS_mxs_cpx2 += "elftosb-native imx-bootlets-del"