diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
index 934591ff1c..04a8105e17 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
@@ -59,8 +59,14 @@ do_install:append(){
 # enable kernel-sample for oeqa/runtime/cases's ksample.py test
 KERNEL_FEATURES:append:qemuall=" features/kernel-sample/kernel-sample.scc"
 
-KERNEL_DEBUG_OPTIONS ?= "stack"
-KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS:append:x86-64 = " ${@bb.utils.contains('KERNEL_DEBUG_OPTIONS', 'stack', 'HOST_LIBELF_LIBS="-L${RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE}/usr/lib/pkgconfig/../../../usr/lib/ -lelf"', '', d)}"
+KERNEL_DEBUG ?= ""
+# These used to be version specific, but are now common dependencies.  New
+# tools / dependencies will continue to be added in version specific recipes.
+DEPENDS += '${@bb.utils.contains_any("ARCH", [ "x86", "arm64" ], "elfutils-native", "", d)}'
+DEPENDS += "openssl-native util-linux-native"
+DEPENDS += "gmp-native libmpc-native"
+DEPENDS += '${@bb.utils.contains("KERNEL_DEBUG", "True", "pahole-native", "", d)}'
+EXTRA_OEMAKE += '${@bb.utils.contains("KERNEL_DEBUG", "True", "", "PAHOLE=false", d)}'
 
 do_devshell:prepend() {
     # setup native pkg-config variables (kconfig scripts call pkg-config directly, cannot generically be overriden to pkg-config-native)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.1.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.1.bb
index 7600f45522..7e7edf82c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.1.bb
@@ -46,10 +46,6 @@ SRC_URI += "file://0001-perf-cpumap-Make-counter-as-unsigned-ints.patch"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6bc538ed5bd9a7fc9398086aedcd7e46"
 LINUX_VERSION ?= "6.1.27"
 
-DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('ARCH', 'x86', 'elfutils-native', '', d)}"
-DEPENDS += "openssl-native util-linux-native"
-DEPENDS += "gmp-native libmpc-native"
-
 PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
 
 KMETA = "kernel-meta"