diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 845f6cad9400dada7bd76c56983fbd38cd4307c3..2f1d05d443f52cb0497ce8bdbf24439ce54caec2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ cache:
 
 install:
  # install latest device tree compiler
- - git clone --depth=1 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git /tmp/dtc
+ - git clone --depth=1 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git /tmp/dtc
  - make -j4 -C /tmp/dtc
  # prepare buildman environment
  - export BUILDMAN_ROOT="root:"