def _kernel_versions_nilrt():
    '''
    Last installed kernel name, for Debian based systems.

    Returns:
            List with possible names of last installed kernel
            as they are probably interpreted in output of `uname -a` command.
    '''
    kver = None

    def _get_kver_from_bin(kbin):
        '''
        Get kernel version from a binary image or None if detection fails
        '''
        kvregex = r'[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+-rt\S+'
        kernel_strings = __salt__['cmd.run']('strings {0}'.format(kbin))
        re_result = re.search(kvregex, kernel_strings)
        return None if re_result is None else re_result.group(0)

    if __grains__.get('lsb_distrib_id') == 'nilrt':
        if 'arm' in __grains__.get('cpuarch'):
            # the kernel is inside a uboot created itb (FIT) image alongside the
            # device tree, ramdisk and a bootscript. There is no package management
            # or any other kind of versioning info, so we need to extract the itb.
            itb_path = '/boot/linux_runmode.itb'
            compressed_kernel = '/var/volatile/tmp/uImage.gz'
            uncompressed_kernel = '/var/volatile/tmp/uImage'
            __salt__['cmd.run']('dumpimage -i {0} -T flat_dt -p0 kernel -o {1}'
                                .format(itb_path, compressed_kernel))
            __salt__['cmd.run']('gunzip -f {0}'.format(compressed_kernel))
            kver = _get_kver_from_bin(uncompressed_kernel)
        else:
            # the kernel bzImage is copied to rootfs without package management or
            # other versioning info.
            kver = _get_kver_from_bin('/boot/runmode/bzImage')
    else:
        # kernels in newer NILRT's are installed via package management and
        # have the version appended to the kernel image filename
        if 'arm' in __grains__.get('cpuarch'):
            kver = os.path.basename(os.readlink('/boot/uImage')).strip('uImage-')
        else:
            kver = os.path.basename(os.readlink('/boot/bzImage')).strip('bzImage-')

    return [] if kver is None else [kver]