diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader.inc b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader.inc
index 72069ad6..4c479f5d 100644
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader.inc
+++ b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader.inc
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ inherit deploy
 
 PROVIDES = "virtual/gem5-bootloader"
 
-COMPATIBLE_MACHINE ?= ""
-COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_gem5_arm64 = "gem5-arm64"
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "gem5-arm64"
 
 # no configure step
 do_configure[noexec] = "1"
diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader_git.bb b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader_git.bb
index ffbc2da4..68f36483 100644
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader_git.bb
+++ b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-bootloader_git.bb
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 # gem5 custom bootloader
 
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
-SRC_URI = "git://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5;protocol=https"
-
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d9514d69d8abf88b6e9125e759bf0ab \
                     file://LICENSE;md5=a585e2893cee63d16a1d8bc16c6297ec"
 
+# The recipe is currently using a version in the development branch of gem5
+# until version 20 with python3 support is released
+SRC_URI = "git://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5;protocol=https;branch=develop"
+
 PV = "git${SRCPV}"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-SRCREV = "bcf041f257623e5c9e77d35b7531bae59edc0423"
+SRCREV = "3eab6ea51e4c2b97e7a68835dddacb989d7559c4"
 
 BPN = "gem5-aarch64-bootloader"
 
diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-dtb.bb b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-dtb.bb
index 362a8e0f..b97a1b28 100644
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-dtb.bb
+++ b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-dtb.bb
@@ -9,14 +9,9 @@ DEPENDS = "gem5-aarch64-native"
 do_configure[noexec] = "1"
 
 do_compile() {
-    # Gem5 is requiring a non zero size disk even though it is not required to
-    # generate the dtb. Use /proc/version as disk file.
-
     # generate a dtb using gem5
     gem5.opt \
         ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gem5/configs/example/arm/baremetal.py \
-        --disk-image /proc/version \
-        --kernel "" \
         --dtb-gen
 
     if [ ! -f m5out/system.dtb ]; then
diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-native_git.bb b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-native_git.bb
index 9c77121f..c42c82ff 100644
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-native_git.bb
+++ b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-native_git.bb
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d9514d69d8abf88b6e9125e759bf0ab \
                     file://LICENSE;md5=a585e2893cee63d16a1d8bc16c6297ec"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5;protocol=https"
+# The recipe is currently using a version in the development branch of gem5
+# until version 20 with python3 support is released
+SRC_URI = "git://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5;protocol=https;branch=develop"
 
 PV = "git${SRCPV}"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-SRCREV = "bcf041f257623e5c9e77d35b7531bae59edc0423"
+SRCREV = "3eab6ea51e4c2b97e7a68835dddacb989d7559c4"
 
 BPN = "gem5-aarch64-native"
 
diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-native.inc b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-native.inc
index 4b02d13e..429e18ce 100644
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-native.inc
+++ b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-native.inc
@@ -11,30 +11,29 @@ GEM5_BUILD_CONFIGS ?= "build/X86/gem5.opt"
 
 # Scons build arguments
 GEM5_SCONS_ARGS ?= "-j ${BB_NUMBER_THREADS} CC=${BUILD_CC} CXX=${BUILD_CXX} \
-    AS=${BUILD_AS} AR=${BUILD_AR} ${GEM5_BUILD_CONFIGS}"
+    AS=${BUILD_AS} AR=${BUILD_AR} ${GEM5_BUILD_CONFIGS} \
+    PYTHON_CONFIG=python3-config"
 
 # Default profile to run
 GEM5_RUN_PROFILE ?= "configs/example/fs.py"
 
-# We are building a native package and we need to use python
-inherit native pythonnative
+# We are building a native package and we need to use scons
+inherit native scons
 
 # the build is using several tools:
-# python: scons and six
+# python3: scons and six
 # google protobuf
 # pkgconfig
 # hdf5
-DEPENDS += "python-native python-scons-native python-six-native \
-    protobuf-native hdf5-native pkgconfig-native boost-native libpng-native"
+DEPENDS += "python3-six-native protobuf-native hdf5-native pkgconfig-native \
+    boost-native libpng-native"
 
-do_configure[noexec] = "1"
+EXTRA_OESCONS = "${GEM5_SCONS_ARGS}"
 
-do_compile() {
+do_compile_prepend() {
     # We need to use the proper native libraries when executing
     # compiled applications
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}"
-
-    scons ${GEM5_SCONS_ARGS}
 }
 
 do_install() {
@@ -58,5 +57,5 @@ EOF
 
 FILES_${PN} = "${datadir}/gem5/* ${bindir}/*"
 INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "already-stripped"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-native hdf5-native protobuf-native libpng-native"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python3-native hdf5-native protobuf-native libpng-native"
 
diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/README b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/README
deleted file mode 100644
index b80c757c..00000000
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-This is added for Gem5 compilation with Zeus as it has been removed from
-OpenEmbedded (and Gem5 needs scons to be compiled).
-
-This should be removed once Gem5 supports properly python3.
diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons-native_3.0.1.bb b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons-native_3.0.1.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 68b63c93..00000000
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons-native_3.0.1.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-require python-scons_${PV}.bb
-inherit native pythonnative
-DEPENDS = "python-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = ""
-
-do_install_append() {
-    create_wrapper ${D}${bindir}/scons SCONS_LIB_DIR='${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}' PYTHONNOUSERSITE='1'
-}
diff --git a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_3.0.1.bb b/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_3.0.1.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index d5084b2d..00000000
--- a/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_3.0.1.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Software Construction tool (make/autotools replacement)"
-SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=46ddf66004e5be5566367cb525a66fc6"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b6a292e251b34b82c203b56cfa3968b3"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "24475e38d39c19683bc88054524df018fe6949d70fbd4c69e298d39a0269f173"
-
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://scons.org/pages/download.html"
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)\.tar"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools
-
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
-  python-fcntl \
-  python-io \
-  python-json \
-  python-subprocess \
-  python-shell \
-  python-pprint \
-  "