diff --git a/driver.sh b/driver.sh
index e0d84d5..1a5916a 100755
--- a/driver.sh
+++ b/driver.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -eu
 setup_variables() {
   while [[ ${#} -ge 1 ]]; do
     case ${1} in
-      "AR="*|"ARCH="*|"CC="*|"LD="*|"REPO="*) export "${1?}" ;;
+      "AR="*|"ARCH="*|"CC="*|"LD="*|"OBJCOPY"=*|"REPO="*) export "${1?}" ;;
       "-c"|"--clean") cleanup=true ;;
       "-j"|"--jobs") shift; jobs=$1 ;;
       "-j"*) jobs=${1/-j} ;;
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ check_dependencies() {
     command -v ${readelf} &>/dev/null && break
   done
 
-  # Check for LD, CC, and AR environmental variables
+  # Check for LD, CC, OBJCOPY, and AR environmental variables
   # and print the version string of each. If CC and AR
   # don't exist, try to find them.
   # lld isn't ready for all architectures so it's just
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ check_dependencies() {
   fi
   check_ar_version
   ${AR} --version
+
+  if [[ -z "${OBJCOPY:-}" ]]; then
+    for OBJCOPY in llvm-objcopy-9 llvm-objcopy-8 llvm-objcopy-7 llvm-objcopy "${CROSS_COMPILE:-}"objcopy; do
+      command -v ${OBJCOPY} 2>/dev/null && break
+    done
+  fi
+  check_objcopy_version
+  ${OBJCOPY} --version
 }
 
 # Optimistically check to see that the user has a llvm-ar
@@ -206,13 +214,34 @@ check_ar_version() {
   fi
 }
 
+# Optimistically check to see that the user has a llvm-objcopy
+# with https://reviews.llvm.org/rL357017. If they don't,
+# fall back to GNU objcopy and let them know.
+check_objcopy_version() {
+  if ${OBJCOPY} --version | grep -q "LLVM" && \
+     [[ $(${OBJCOPY} --version | grep version | sed -e 's/.*LLVM version //g' -e 's/[[:blank:]]*$//' -e 's/\.//g' -e 's/svn//' ) -lt 900 ]]; then
+    set +x
+    echo
+    echo "${OBJCOPY} found but appears to be too old to build the kernel (needs to be at least 9.0.0)."
+    echo
+    echo "Please either update llvm-objcopy from your distro or build it from source!"
+    echo
+    echo "See https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/418 for more info."
+    echo
+    echo "Falling back to GNU objcopy..."
+    echo
+    OBJCOPY=${CROSS_COMPILE:-}objcopy
+    set -x
+  fi
+}
+
 mako_reactor() {
   # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
   time \
   KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 UTC 1970" \
   KBUILD_BUILD_USER=driver \
   KBUILD_BUILD_HOST=clangbuiltlinux \
-  make -j"${jobs:-$(nproc)}" CC="${CC}" HOSTCC="${CC}" LD="${LD}" HOSTLD="${HOSTLD:-ld}" AR="${AR}" "${@}"
+  make -j"${jobs:-$(nproc)}" CC="${CC}" HOSTCC="${CC}" LD="${LD}" HOSTLD="${HOSTLD:-ld}" AR="${AR}" OBJCOPY="${OBJCOPY}" "${@}"
 }
 
 apply_patches() {
diff --git a/usage.txt b/usage.txt
index 6a5ac8a..8ee1e0b 100644
--- a/usage.txt
+++ b/usage.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ Environment variables:
       clang-9, clang-8, clang-7, then clang if they are found in PATH.
   LD:
       If no LD value is specified, ${CROSS_COMPILE}ld is used. arm64 only.
+  OBJCOPY:
+      If no OBJCOPY value is specified, the script will attempt to set OBJCOPY
+      to llvm-objcopy-9, llvm-objcopy-8, llvm-objcopy-7, llvm-objcopy, then
+      ${CROSS_COMPILE}objcopy if they are found in PATH.
   REPO:
       Nicknames for trees:
         linux (default)