diff --git a/recipes-core/images/riscv-initramfs-image.bb b/recipes-core/images/riscv-initramfs-image.bb
index 3cf7c6e..f449be9 100644
--- a/recipes-core/images/riscv-initramfs-image.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/images/riscv-initramfs-image.bb
@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
 
 BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "busybox-syslog"
+
+# WIC is not compatible with an initramfs image, also enabling WIC would cause
+# an circular dependency.
+IMAGE_FSTYPES_remove = " wic wic.gz"