diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/edk2.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/edk2.yml
index 62497ba47f..13d0f8b019 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/edk2.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/edk2.yml
@@ -50,7 +50,11 @@ build-edk2:
    GIT_DEPTH: 3
  script: # Clone the required submodules and build EDK2
  - git submodule update --init roms/edk2
- - git -C roms/edk2 submodule update --init
+ - git -C roms/edk2 submodule update --init --
+     ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/berkeley-softfloat-3
+     BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress/brotli
+     CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl
+     MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/brotli
  - export JOBS=$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) + 1))
  - echo "=== Using ${JOBS} simultaneous jobs ==="
  - make -j${JOBS} -C roms efi 2>&1 1>edk2-stdout.log | tee -a edk2-stderr.log >&2
diff --git a/roms/Makefile.edk2 b/roms/Makefile.edk2
index a8ed325575..fdae0b511f 100644
--- a/roms/Makefile.edk2
+++ b/roms/Makefile.edk2
@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ all: $(foreach flashdev,$(flashdevs),../pc-bios/edk2-$(flashdev).fd.bz2) \
 # make-release/tarball scripts.
 submodules:
 	if test -d edk2/.git; then \
-		cd edk2 && git submodule update --init --force; \
+		cd edk2 && git submodule update --init --force -- \
+			ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/berkeley-softfloat-3 \
+			BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress/brotli \
+			CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl \
+			MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/brotli \
+		; \
 	fi
 
 # See notes on the ".NOTPARALLEL" target and the "+" indicator in
diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
index a2a8cda33c..05b14ecc95 100755
--- a/scripts/make-release
+++ b/scripts/make-release
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@ git submodule update --init
 # don't necessarily have much control over how a submodule handles its
 # submodule dependencies, so we continue to handle these on a case-by-case
 # basis for now.
-(cd roms/edk2 && git submodule update --init)
+(cd roms/edk2 && \
+    git submodule update --init -- \
+        ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/berkeley-softfloat-3 \
+        BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress/brotli \
+        CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl \
+        MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/brotli)
 popd
 tar --exclude=.git -cjf ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}
 rm -rf ${destination}