diff --git a/package/boot/uboot-sunxi/patches/200-mkimage-check-environment-for-dtc-binary-location.patch b/package/boot/uboot-sunxi/patches/200-mkimage-check-environment-for-dtc-binary-location.patch
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/boot/uboot-sunxi/patches/200-mkimage-check-environment-for-dtc-binary-location.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 5b707cdadb35d896daafff52983416e1c617745b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
+Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:23:15 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] mkimage: check environment for dtc binary location
+
+Currently mkimage assumes the dtc binary is in the path and fails
+otherwise. This patch makes it check the DTC environment variable first
+for the dtc binary and then fall back to the default path. This makes
+it possible to call the u-boot build with make DTC=... and build a fit
+image with the dtc binary not being the the default path.
+
+Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
+Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+---
+ tools/fit_image.c | 7 ++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/tools/fit_image.c
++++ b/tools/fit_image.c
+@@ -647,9 +647,14 @@ static int fit_handle_file(struct image_
+ 		}
+ 		*cmd = '\0';
+ 	} else if (params->datafile) {
++		const char* dtc = getenv("DTC");
++
++		if (!dtc)
++			dtc = MKIMAGE_DTC;
++
+ 		/* dtc -I dts -O dtb -p 500 datafile > tmpfile */
+ 		snprintf(cmd, sizeof(cmd), "%s %s %s > %s",
+-			 MKIMAGE_DTC, params->dtc, params->datafile, tmpfile);
++			 dtc, params->dtc, params->datafile, tmpfile);
+ 		debug("Trying to execute \"%s\"\n", cmd);
+ 	} else {
+ 		snprintf(cmd, sizeof(cmd), "cp %s %s",