diff --git a/packages/multimedia/imx-vpu/package.mk b/packages/multimedia/imx-vpu/package.mk
index 8d883a5ed7..0eb3875462 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/imx-vpu/package.mk
+++ b/packages/multimedia/imx-vpu/package.mk
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="imx-vpu"
-PKG_VERSION="3.10.17-1.0.0"
+PKG_VERSION="5.4.27"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="arm"
 PKG_LICENSE="other"
diff --git a/packages/multimedia/imx-vpu/patches/imx-vpu-cflags.patch b/packages/multimedia/imx-vpu/patches/imx-vpu-cflags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e8f2e2e663..0000000000
--- a/packages/multimedia/imx-vpu/patches/imx-vpu-cflags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur imx-lib-3.5.7-1.0.0/vpu/Makefile imx-lib-3.5.7-1.0.0.patch/vpu/Makefile
---- imx-lib-3.5.7-1.0.0/vpu/Makefile	2013-06-21 15:22:18.000000000 +0200
-+++ imx-lib-3.5.7-1.0.0.patch/vpu/Makefile	2014-01-13 08:07:56.431868081 +0100
-@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
- CC=$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
- AR=$(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
- 
-+CFLAGS := -Wall -O2
-+
- # list of platforms which want this test case
- INCLUDE_LIST:= IMX27ADS IMX51 IMX53 IMX6Q
- 
-@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@
- endif
- 
- %.o: %.c
--	$(CC) -D$(PLATFORM) -Wall -O2 -fPIC -c $^ -o $@
-+	$(CC) -D$(PLATFORM) $(CFLAGS) -fPIC -c $^ -o $@
- 
- $(LIBNAME).so.$(SONAMEVERSION): $(OBJ)
- 	$(CC) -shared -nostartfiles -Wl,-soname,$@ $^ -o $@ -lpthread