diff --git a/src/freedombone-image-hardware-setup b/src/freedombone-image-hardware-setup
index 175ee049e4a16982a582d525a7b9755030e48c13..f3e24873bfe55f788208bfa51fccfdbf10ae881b 100755
--- a/src/freedombone-image-hardware-setup
+++ b/src/freedombone-image-hardware-setup
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ export TEXTDOMAINDIR="/usr/share/locale"
 
 INSTALL_PACKAGES='apt-get -yq install'
 
+convert_dts() {
+    dts="$1"
+    $INSTALL_PACKAGES device-tree-compiler
+    dtc -I dts -O dtb "${dts}.dts" > "${dts}.dtb"
+}
+
 enable_serial_console() {
     # By default, spawn a console on the serial port
     device="$1"