Andrew Morton wrote:

>Anyway, I'll stick this as-is in -mm.  Feel free to send an incremental
>patch, or a replacement.
>

Here is an incremental patch [hopefully] with your concerns addressed.  
Note that the arch/ppc/boot code is not kernel code and only exists for 
a short period of time before execution jumps to the kernel.  Please let 
me know if you have any more concerns.

Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
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