diff --git a/package/uboot-tools/0001-drop-configh-from-tools.patch b/package/uboot-tools/0001-drop-configh-from-tools.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+From 216832de3bc3e6ef093305c6d07f464f7606f2d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Krause?= <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
+Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 22:13:20 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] drop configh from tools
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+We need to build u-boot tools without a board configuration for the target.
+fw_env just uses config.h to define the default environment of the created
+image, so it really isn't mandatory.
+
+Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
+[Jörg Krause: update for version 2015.07]
+Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
+[Romain: update for version 2017.05
+    after commit 9d80b49a671c9922931adcd823aab0ed319a42d1]
+Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+---
+ tools/env/fw_env_private.h | 11 -----------
+ 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/env/fw_env_private.h b/tools/env/fw_env_private.h
+index 0c27da0..e550463 100644
+--- a/tools/env/fw_env_private.h
++++ b/tools/env/fw_env_private.h
+@@ -5,17 +5,6 @@
+  * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+  */
+ 
+-/* Pull in the current config to define the default environment */
+-#include <linux/kconfig.h>
+-
+-#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+-#define __ASSEMBLY__ /* get only #defines from config.h */
+-#include <config.h>
+-#undef	__ASSEMBLY__
+-#else
+-#include <config.h>
+-#endif
+-
+ /*
+  * To build the utility with the static configuration
+  * comment out the next line.
+-- 
+2.9.4
+