diff --git a/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md b/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
index 4b36a630421d..1df5e6b9a01c 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
   `lib.systems.{examples,platforms}.{sheevaplug,pogoplug4}` have been unified into `lib.systems.examples.armv5tel-multiplatform`.
   Note that there is no official support for ARMv5 and it is not possible to build even a simple NixOS configuration out of the box.
 
+- Support for the legacy U‐Boot image format has been removed from the Linux kernel builders, as it is deprecated upstream and no longer used by any platform in Nixpkgs.
+
 - `requireFile` now sets `meta.license = lib.licenses.unfree` by default. Users of `requireFile`-based derivations that preserve this default will need to explicitly allow their evaluation as described in [](#sec-allow-unfree).
 
 - `librest` providing 0.7 ABI was removed. `librest_1_0` providing 1.0 ABI was renamed to `librest` and `librest_1_0` was kept as an alias.
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/build.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/build.nix
index 04cbc24e9c02..23a08f5beaa4 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/build.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/build.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
   zlib,
   pahole,
   kmod,
-  ubootTools,
   fetchpatch,
   rustc-unwrapped,
   rust-bindgen-unwrapped,
@@ -116,31 +115,6 @@ lib.makeOverridable (
         ;
     };
 
-    # Folding in `ubootTools` in the default nativeBuildInputs is problematic, as
-    # it makes updating U-Boot cumbersome, since it will go above the current
-    # threshold of rebuilds
-    #
-    # To prevent these needless rounds of staging for U-Boot builds, we can
-    # limit the inclusion of ubootTools to target platforms where uImage *may*
-    # be produced.
-    #
-    # This command lists those (kernel-named) platforms:
-    #     .../linux $ grep -l uImage ./arch/*/Makefile | cut -d'/' -f3 | sort
-    #
-    # This is still a guesstimation, but since none of our cached platforms
-    # coincide in that list, this gives us "perfect" decoupling here.
-    linuxPlatformsUsingUImage = [
-      "arc"
-      "arm"
-      "csky"
-      "mips"
-      "powerpc"
-      "sh"
-      "sparc"
-      "xtensa"
-    ];
-    needsUbootTools = lib.elem stdenv.hostPlatform.linuxArch linuxPlatformsUsingUImage;
-
     config =
       let
         attrName = attr: "CONFIG_" + attr;
@@ -267,7 +241,6 @@ lib.makeOverridable (
       kmod
       hexdump
     ]
-    ++ optional needsUbootTools ubootTools
     ++ optionals (lib.versionAtLeast version "5.2") [
       cpio
       pahole
@@ -536,12 +509,10 @@ lib.makeOverridable (
       kernelAtLeast = lib.versionAtLeast baseVersion;
     };
 
-    # Some image types need special install targets (e.g. uImage is installed with make uinstall on arm)
+    # Some image types need special install targets
     installTargets = [
       (stdenv.hostPlatform.linux-kernel.installTarget or (
-        if target == "uImage" && stdenv.hostPlatform.linuxArch == "arm" then
-          "uinstall"
-        else if
+        if
           (target == "zImage" || target == "Image.gz" || target == "vmlinuz.efi")
           && builtins.elem stdenv.hostPlatform.linuxArch [
             "arm"