diff --git a/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.mk b/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.mk
index d3e99fcdfd..fdcfda33e8 100644
--- a/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.mk
+++ b/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.mk
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ define COREMARK_PRO_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
 	$(INSTALL) -D $(@D)/builds/linux$(if $(BR2_ARCH_IS_64),64)/gcc$(if $(BR2_ARCH_IS_64),64)/data/libbmp/Rose256.bmp $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/coremark-pro/Rose256.bmp
 	$(foreach s,$(COREMARK_PRO_SCRIPTS),\
 		$(INSTALL) -D $(@D)/util/perl/$(s) $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/coremark-pro/util/perl/$(s)$(sep))
-	$(Q)cp package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/
+	$(Q)sed "s/@COREMARK_PRO_MARKS@/$(COREMARK_PRO_MARKS)/" \
+		package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh.in >$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/coremark-pro.sh
 endef
 
 $(eval $(generic-package))
diff --git a/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh b/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh.in
similarity index 85%
rename from package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh
rename to package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh.in
index 65ad9df645..8b370b7c75 100755
--- a/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh
+++ b/package/coremark-pro/coremark-pro.sh.in
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-workloads="cjpeg-rose7-preset core linear_alg-mid-100x100-sp \
-    loops-all-mid-10k-sp nnet_test parser-125k radix2-big-64k sha-test zip-test"
+workloads="@COREMARK_PRO_MARKS@"
 
 rm -rf /tmp/coremark-pro
 mkdir -p /tmp/coremark-pro
@@ -16,11 +15,11 @@ for contype in single best; do
     for wld in $workloads; do
         [ "$contype" = "single" ] && XCMD="-c1 -w1"
         [ "$contype" = "best" ] && XCMD="-c$(nproc) -w$(nproc)"
-        echo "#Results for verification run started at $(date +%y%j:%H:%M:%S) XCMD=$XCMD" >$wld-$contype-result.log
+        echo "#Results for verification run started at $(date +%x:%X) XCMD=$XCMD" >$wld-$contype-result.log
         echo "Verification run for $wld"
         $wld $XCMD -v1 > $wld.run.log
         LC_ALL=C perl /usr/share/coremark-pro/util/perl/results_parser.pl $wld-$contype-result.log $wld.run.log
-        echo "#Results for performance runs started at $(date +%y%j:%H:%M:%S) XCMD=$XCMD" >>$wld-$contype-result.log
+        echo "#Results for performance runs started at $(date +%x:%X) XCMD=$XCMD" >>$wld-$contype-result.log
         echo "Performance run for $wld"
         for i in 1 2 3; do
             $wld $XCMD -v0 > $wld.run.log