diff --git a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-ti.inc b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-ti.inc
index c3c32f9c..5ddcaff7 100644
--- a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-ti.inc
+++ b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-ti.inc
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 # UBOOT_LOCALVERSION can be set to add a tag to the end of the
 # U-boot version string.  such as the commit id
-def get_git_revision(p):
-    import subprocess
-
-    try:
-        return subprocess.Popen("git rev-parse HEAD 2>/dev/null ", cwd=p, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True).communicate()[0].rstrip()
-    except OSError:
-        return None
-
-UBOOT_LOCALVERSION = "-g${@get_git_revision('${S}').__str__()[:10]}"
+UBOOT_LOCALVERSION = "-g${@d.getVar("SRCREV", False).__str__()[:10]}"
 
 UBOOT_SUFFIX ?= "img"
 SPL_BINARY ?= "MLO"