diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20250917.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20250917.bb
index e69e51024f..f8d8decfe5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20250917.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20250917.bb
@@ -2353,7 +2353,10 @@ python populate_packages:prepend () {
 
 # Firmware files are generally not ran on the CPU, so they can be
 # allarch despite being architecture specific
-INSANE_SKIP = "arch"
+INSANE_SKIP += "arch"
+
+# They can also be ELF files, but obviously won't have the linkage we expect
+INSANE_SKIP += "ldflags"
 
 # Don't warn about already stripped files
 INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "already-stripped"