diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
index b4af9c9e52..a2a8cda33c 100755
--- a/scripts/make-release
+++ b/scripts/make-release
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ git checkout "v${version}"
 git submodule update --init
 (cd roms/seabios && git describe --tags --long --dirty > .version)
 (cd roms/skiboot && ./make_version.sh > .version)
+# Fetch edk2 submodule's submodules, since it won't have access to them via
+# the tarball later.
+#
+# A more uniform way to handle this sort of situation would be nice, but we
+# 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)
 popd
 tar --exclude=.git -cjf ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}
 rm -rf ${destination}