diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-aarch64.nix b/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-aarch64.nix
index c94dc7d40194ae..efb9ba39bcd452 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-aarch64.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-aarch64.nix
@@ -40,16 +40,6 @@ in
 
   sdImage = {
     populateBootCommands = let
-      # Contains a couple of fixes for booting a Linux kernel, will hopefully appear upstream soon.
-      patchedUboot = pkgs.ubootRaspberryPi3_64bit.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
-        src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
-          owner = "dezgeg";
-          repo = "u-boot";
-          rev = "baab53ec244fe44def01948a0f10e67342d401e6";
-          sha256 = "0r5j2pc42ws3w3im0a9c6bh01czz5kapqrqp0ik9ra823cw73lxr";
-        };
-      });
-
       configTxt = pkgs.writeText "config.txt" ''
         kernel=u-boot-rpi3.bin
         arm_control=0x200
@@ -57,7 +47,7 @@ in
       '';
       in ''
         (cd ${pkgs.raspberrypifw}/share/raspberrypi/boot && cp bootcode.bin fixup*.dat start*.elf $NIX_BUILD_TOP/boot/)
-        cp ${patchedUboot}/u-boot.bin boot/u-boot-rpi3.bin
+        cp ${pkgs.ubootRaspberryPi3_64bit}/u-boot.bin boot/u-boot-rpi3.bin
         cp ${configTxt} boot/config.txt
         ${extlinux-conf-builder} -t 3 -c ${config.system.build.toplevel} -d ./boot
       '';
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/uboot/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/uboot/default.nix
index a69bf2ceac7b6b..1947fd30a4011c 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/uboot/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/uboot/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, bc, dtc, python2
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, bc, dtc, python2
 , hostPlatform
 }:
 
@@ -12,21 +12,38 @@ let
            stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
 
     name = "uboot-${defconfig}-${version}";
-    version = "2017.03";
+    version = "2017.11";
 
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-${version}.tar.bz2";
-      sha256 = "0gqihplap05dlpwdb971wsqyv01nz2vabwq5g5649gr5jczsyjzm";
+      sha256 = "01bcsah5imy6m3fbjwhqywxg0pfk5fl8ks9ylb7kv3zmrb9qy0ba";
     };
 
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ bc dtc python2 ];
-
-    hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
+    patches = [
+      (fetchpatch {
+        url = https://github.com/dezgeg/u-boot/commit/rpi-2017-11-patch1.patch;
+        sha256 = "067yq55vv1slv4xy346px7h329pi14abdn04chg6s1s6hmf6c1x9";
+      })
+      (fetchpatch {
+        url = https://github.com/dezgeg/u-boot/commit/rpi-2017-11-patch2.patch;
+        sha256 = "0bbw0q027xvzvdxxvpzjajg4rm30a8mb7z74b6ma9q0l7y7bi0c4";
+      })
+      (fetchpatch {
+        url = https://github.com/dezgeg/u-boot/commit/pythonpath-2017-11.patch;
+        sha256 = "162b2lglp307pzxsf9m7nnmzwxqd7xkwp5j85bm6bg1a38ngpl9v";
+      })
+    ];
 
     postPatch = ''
       patchShebangs tools
     '';
 
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ bc dtc python2 ];
+
+    hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
+
+    makeFlags = [ "DTC=dtc" ];
+
     configurePhase = ''
       make ${defconfig}
     '';