diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
index 8041a9845ab7efa9c94d58505a1d32c949b7e716..b1e5611b2ab1d639edd67346ca50f88d625b9629 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ char arch[] = "PowerPC";
 #define N_DESCR	6
 unsigned int descr[N_DESCR] = {
 	0xffffffff,		/* real-mode = true */
-	0x00c00000,		/* real-base, i.e. where we expect OF to be */
+	0x02000000,		/* real-base, i.e. where we expect OF to be */
 	0xffffffff,		/* real-size */
 	0xffffffff,		/* virt-base */
 	0xffffffff,		/* virt-size */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c
index 95b8fd69a403b65874a272435f4915ced50e6d84..b0ec9cf3eaaf6e6bf44f9a77aeb079761a2d628c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c
@@ -168,8 +168,19 @@ void *of_claim(unsigned long virt, unsigned long size, unsigned long align)
 
 void *of_vmlinux_alloc(unsigned long size)
 {
-	void *p = malloc(size);
-
+	unsigned long start = (unsigned long)_start, end = (unsigned long)_end;
+	void *addr;
+	void *p;
+
+	/* With some older POWER4 firmware we need to claim the area the kernel
+	 * will reside in.  Newer firmwares don't need this so we just ignore
+	 * the return value.
+	 */
+	addr = of_claim(start, end - start, 0);
+	printf("Trying to claim from 0x%lx to 0x%lx (0x%lx) got %p\r\n",
+	       start, end, end - start, addr);
+
+	p = malloc(size);
 	if (!p)
 		fatal("Can't allocate memory for kernel image!\n\r");
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index cb87a015be7cddbc6accc17f5629ca2d8264a8de..df2358e9f1ca7eef060e5a8a564ddfbc3ab80592 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -138,14 +138,20 @@ objflags=-S
 tmp=$tmpdir/zImage.$$.o
 ksection=.kernel:vmlinux.strip
 isection=.kernel:initrd
+link_address='0x400000'
 
 case "$platform" in
-pmac|pseries|chrp)
+pseries)
+    platformo=$object/of.o
+    link_address='0x4000000'
+    ;;
+pmac|chrp)
     platformo=$object/of.o
     ;;
 coff)
     platformo=$object/of.o
     lds=$object/zImage.coff.lds
+    link_address='0x500000'
     ;;
 miboot|uboot)
     # miboot and U-boot want just the bare bits, not an ELF binary
@@ -190,6 +196,7 @@ ps3)
     objflags="-O binary --set-section-flags=.bss=contents,alloc,load,data"
     ksection=.kernel:vmlinux.bin
     isection=.kernel:initrd
+    link_address=''
     ;;
 ep88xc|ep405|ep8248e)
     platformo="$object/fixed-head.o $object/$platform.o"
@@ -272,7 +279,10 @@ if [ -n "$dtb" ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ "$platform" != "miboot" ]; then
-    ${CROSS}ld -m elf32ppc -T $lds -o "$ofile" \
+    if [ -n "$link_address" ] ; then
+        text_start="-Ttext $link_address --defsym _start=$link_address"
+    fi
+    ${CROSS}ld -m elf32ppc -T $lds $text_start -o "$ofile" \
 	$platformo $tmp $object/wrapper.a
     rm $tmp
 fi
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S
index fe87a90ce7f1a606bba00f50597ac9677757598c..856dc78b14ef8f3d2b8062ba5c0b5d6b22f49e4d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ ENTRY(_zimage_start_opd)
 EXTERN(_zimage_start_opd)
 SECTIONS
 {
-  . = (5*1024*1024);
   _start = .;
   .text      :
   {
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
index f6e380fdb388903a01394c1643f3a7b71ae2c455..0962d62bdb5051c7e4ae61ff0b461e34bc952e46 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ ENTRY(_zimage_start)
 EXTERN(_zimage_start)
 SECTIONS
 {
-  . = (4*1024*1024);
   _start = .;
   .text      :
   {