diff --git a/meta-ti-bsp/conf/machine/include/k3.inc b/meta-ti-bsp/conf/machine/include/k3.inc
index 50411a8e..69684a15 100644
--- a/meta-ti-bsp/conf/machine/include/k3.inc
+++ b/meta-ti-bsp/conf/machine/include/k3.inc
@@ -43,7 +43,12 @@ MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "ti-pka-fw"
 
 IMAGE_FSTYPES += "tar.xz wic.xz wic.bmap"
 
-IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "${SPL_BINARYNAME} u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} tiboot3.bin tiboot3-*-evm.bin"
+BUILD_CORE_INITRD_IMAGE ?= ""
+BUILD_CORE_INITRD_IMAGE:bsp-mainline = "ti-core-initramfs:do_image_complete"
+BUILD_CORE_INITRD_IMAGE:bsp-next = "ti-core-initramfs:do_image_complete"
+do_image_complete[depends] += "${BUILD_CORE_INITRD_IMAGE}"
+
+IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "${SPL_BINARYNAME} u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} tiboot3.bin tiboot3-*-evm.bin ti-core-initramfs.cpio.xz"
 IMAGE_EFI_BOOT_FILES ?= "${IMAGE_BOOT_FILES}"
 
 EFI_PROVIDER ?= "grub-efi"