diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 7a713a54dcc53595fb7d854354ec9581bb8101f5..6b7b9ce85c54789fe9dbd1bffeb60149cef7daf1 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ endif
 ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
 obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_YMODEM_SUPPORT) += crc16.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_TPL_)HASH_SUPPORT) += crc16.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_NET_SUPPORT) += net_utils.o
+obj-y += net_utils.o
 endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_ADDR_MAP) += addr_map.o
 obj-y += qsort.o
diff --git a/lib/net_utils.c b/lib/net_utils.c
index ed5044c3deca90a05fee272cf119c4a4512dd2ed..8af77829705db9f5b3fefc45c2027d4358e5b54c 100644
--- a/lib/net_utils.c
+++ b/lib/net_utils.c
@@ -56,3 +56,51 @@ void string_to_enetaddr(const char *addr, uint8_t *enetaddr)
 			addr = (*end) ? end + 1 : end;
 	}
 }
+
+uint compute_ip_checksum(const void *vptr, uint nbytes)
+{
+	int sum, oddbyte;
+	const unsigned short *ptr = vptr;
+
+	sum = 0;
+	while (nbytes > 1) {
+		sum += *ptr++;
+		nbytes -= 2;
+	}
+	if (nbytes == 1) {
+		oddbyte = 0;
+		((u8 *)&oddbyte)[0] = *(u8 *)ptr;
+		((u8 *)&oddbyte)[1] = 0;
+		sum += oddbyte;
+	}
+	sum = (sum >> 16) + (sum & 0xffff);
+	sum += (sum >> 16);
+	sum = ~sum & 0xffff;
+
+	return sum;
+}
+
+uint add_ip_checksums(uint offset, uint sum, uint new)
+{
+	ulong checksum;
+
+	sum = ~sum & 0xffff;
+	new = ~new & 0xffff;
+	if (offset & 1) {
+		/*
+		 * byte-swap the sum if it came from an odd offset; since the
+		 * computation is endian-independent this works.
+		 */
+		new = ((new >> 8) & 0xff) | ((new << 8) & 0xff00);
+	}
+	checksum = sum + new;
+	if (checksum > 0xffff)
+		checksum -= 0xffff;
+
+	return (~checksum) & 0xffff;
+}
+
+int ip_checksum_ok(const void *addr, uint nbytes)
+{
+	return !(compute_ip_checksum(addr, nbytes) & 0xfffe);
+}
diff --git a/net/Makefile b/net/Makefile
index 2a700c8401c4c1e84f45dafa17b08db80a7709e7..fef71b940a0fa45b853ec5e6a3b27c7b126f22d8 100644
--- a/net/Makefile
+++ b/net/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 #ccflags-y += -DDEBUG
 
-obj-y += checksum.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NET)      += arp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTP) += bootp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_CDP)  += cdp.o
diff --git a/net/checksum.c b/net/checksum.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 16ef41635676e1cf7673aaca8a0ae5e019e2c36c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/net/checksum.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
-/*
- * This file was originally taken from the FreeBSD project.
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2001 Charles Mott <cm@linktel.net>
- * Copyright (c) 2008 coresystems GmbH
- * All rights reserved.
- */
-
-#include <common.h>
-#include <net.h>
-
-unsigned compute_ip_checksum(const void *vptr, unsigned nbytes)
-{
-	int sum, oddbyte;
-	const unsigned short *ptr = vptr;
-
-	sum = 0;
-	while (nbytes > 1) {
-		sum += *ptr++;
-		nbytes -= 2;
-	}
-	if (nbytes == 1) {
-		oddbyte = 0;
-		((u8 *)&oddbyte)[0] = *(u8 *)ptr;
-		((u8 *)&oddbyte)[1] = 0;
-		sum += oddbyte;
-	}
-	sum = (sum >> 16) + (sum & 0xffff);
-	sum += (sum >> 16);
-	sum = ~sum & 0xffff;
-
-	return sum;
-}
-
-unsigned add_ip_checksums(unsigned offset, unsigned sum, unsigned new)
-{
-	unsigned long checksum;
-
-	sum = ~sum & 0xffff;
-	new = ~new & 0xffff;
-	if (offset & 1) {
-		/*
-		 * byte-swap the sum if it came from an odd offset; since the
-		 * computation is endian independant this works.
-		 */
-		new = ((new >> 8) & 0xff) | ((new << 8) & 0xff00);
-	}
-	checksum = sum + new;
-	if (checksum > 0xffff)
-		checksum -= 0xffff;
-
-	return (~checksum) & 0xffff;
-}
-
-int ip_checksum_ok(const void *addr, unsigned nbytes)
-{
-	return !(compute_ip_checksum(addr, nbytes) & 0xfffe);
-}