diff --git a/meta-yocto/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bbappend b/meta-yocto/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bbappend
index 68c7cad840..4c483ca9c5 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bbappend
+++ b/meta-yocto/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bbappend
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-KMACHINE_atom-pc  = "yocto/standard/common-pc/atom-pc"
-KMACHINE_routerstationpro = "yocto/standard/routerstationpro"
-KMACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "yocto/standard/fsl-mpc8315e-rdb"
-KMACHINE_beagleboard = "yocto/standard/beagleboard"
+KBRANCH_atom-pc  = "yocto/standard/common-pc/atom-pc"
+KBRANCH_routerstationpro = "yocto/standard/routerstationpro"
+KBRANCH_mpc8315e-rdb = "yocto/standard/fsl-mpc8315e-rdb"
+KBRANCH_beagleboard = "yocto/standard/beagleboard"
 
+# temporary until 3.0 tree is updated to have machine mapping
+KMACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "fsl-mpc8315e-rdb"
 
 SRCREV_machine_atom-pc ?= "afdda882f902dd28693cd8701a7d497958290f09"
 SRCREV_machine_routerstationpro ?= "220d89fcf345ee28fb0cdcf0f33f83b3dc7c460f"