diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
index b7873d3..65c2ab7 100644
--- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
+++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_raspberrypi3 ?= "bcm2709_defconfig"
 KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_raspberrypi3-64 ?= "bcmrpi3_defconfig"
 
 # CMDLINE for raspberrypi
-CMDLINE ?= "dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait"
+SERIAL = "${@oe.utils.conditional("ENABLE_UART", "1", "console=serial0,115200", "", d)}"
+CMDLINE ?= "dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 ${SERIAL} root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait"
 
 # Add the kernel debugger over console kernel command line option if enabled
 CMDLINE_append = ' ${@oe.utils.conditional("ENABLE_KGDB", "1", "kgdboc=serial0,115200", "", d)}'