diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 7685c6921fa..b2f9e3c8071 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -700,30 +700,19 @@ do_kernel_link_images() {
 }
 addtask kernel_link_images after do_compile before do_strip
 
-do_strip() {
-	if [ -n "${KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS}" ]; then
-		if ! (echo "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES}" | grep -wq "vmlinux"); then
-			bbwarn "image type(s) will not be stripped (not supported): ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES}"
-			return
-		fi
-
-		cd ${B}
-		headers=`"$CROSS_COMPILE"readelf -S ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/vmlinux | \
-			  grep "^ \{1,\}\[[0-9 ]\{1,\}\] [^ ]" | \
-			  sed "s/^ \{1,\}\[[0-9 ]\{1,\}\] //" | \
-			  gawk '{print $1}'`
-
-		for str in ${KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS}; do {
-			if ! (echo "$headers" | grep -q "^$str$"); then
-				bbwarn "Section not found: $str";
-			fi
-
-			"$CROSS_COMPILE"strip -s -R $str ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/vmlinux
-		}; done
-
-		bbnote "KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS is set, stripping sections:" \
-			"${KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS}"
-	fi;
+python do_strip() {
+    import shutil
+
+    strip = d.getVar('STRIP')
+    extra_sections = d.getVar('KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS')
+    kernel_image = d.getVar('B') + "/" + d.getVar('KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR') + "/vmlinux"
+
+    if (extra_sections is not None and kernel_image.find('boot/vmlinux') != -1):
+        kernel_image_stripped = kernel_image + ".stripped"
+        shutil.copy2(kernel_image, kernel_image_stripped)
+        oe.package.runstrip((kernel_image_stripped, 8, strip, extra_sections))
+        bb.note ("KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS is set, stripping sections: " + \
+            extra_sections)
 }
 do_strip[dirs] = "${B}"
 
@@ -768,7 +757,12 @@ kernel_do_deploy() {
 
 	for imageType in ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES} ; do
 		baseName=$imageType-${KERNEL_IMAGE_NAME}
-		install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$imageType $deployDir/$baseName${KERNEL_IMAGE_BIN_EXT}
+
+		if [ -s ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$imageType.stripped ] ; then
+			install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$imageType.stripped $deployDir/$baseName${KERNEL_IMAGE_BIN_EXT}
+		else
+			install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$imageType $deployDir/$baseName${KERNEL_IMAGE_BIN_EXT}
+		fi
 		if [ -n "${KERNEL_IMAGE_LINK_NAME}" ] ; then
 			ln -sf $baseName${KERNEL_IMAGE_BIN_EXT} $deployDir/$imageType-${KERNEL_IMAGE_LINK_NAME}${KERNEL_IMAGE_BIN_EXT}
 		fi