diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/Manifest
index d441b0e612..2a0708e10f 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/Manifest
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST linux-firmware-20180606.tar.gz 152670671 BLAKE2B 7c4fb07451c1c459bd0bf8bec15e3bff41bdb64166decfd7776650c85f0b373c97dfa23330ebb7ddd4bc144bffb57751f3a94bb4a352e5f8ef1dd0b8a3679c81 SHA512 4eb02e11beffde5bf8daff45af78304881e01eb51004ff0758bfff3a4a4cb59f6a2e081b7a3c3e07734a29954f09fa6277f920c2bdab6aeb608065936861c650
+DIST linux-firmware-20181001.tar.gz 158397569 BLAKE2B 2694014f847fb60f5f0c208a479f4cdf0b422ef249735f22f0ef72e0fd385e8ba6737da1b1cf24daf74fd5f28c3c69b96e14850520f16b8a556c7ca734a3557e SHA512 f20b65122381423597cebd5a3018bbe55f0f8697a03b5ae3e7c1c6dd1cddcb1da4f3fddc8e4accb2d780faf1c0e66bed7dda6b1ab1c48d2e0b2435a5a7eb03f7
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-20180606.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-20181001.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-20180606.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-20181001.ebuild
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-99999999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-99999999.ebuild
index 7fc1d1a36e..db62bbb2b8 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-99999999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-firmware/coreos-firmware-99999999.ebuild
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ if [[ ${PV} == 99999999* ]]; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git"
 	KEYWORDS=""
 else
-	GIT_COMMIT="d1147327232ec4616a66ab898df84f9700c816c1"
+	GIT_COMMIT="7c81f23ad903f72e87e2102d8f52408305c0f7a2"
 	SRC_URI="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/snapshot/linux-firmware-${GIT_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> linux-firmware-${PV}.tar.gz"
 	KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~arm arm64 hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc x86"
 fi
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ RDEPEND="${CDEPEND}
 	"
 #add anything else that collides to this
 
+RESTRICT="binchecks strip"
+
 # source name is linux-firmware, not coreos-firmware
 S="${WORKDIR}/linux-firmware-${PV}"