diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 2da8624e5cf6..c54d9d0f6043 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ $(obj)/misc.o: $(obj)/sizes.h
 CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds += -I$(objtree)/$(obj) -DBOOTLOADER
 $(obj)/vmlinux.lds: $(obj)/sizes.h

-$(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux
+OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin :=  -R .comment -S
+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,objcopy)

 vmlinux.bin.all-y := $(obj)/vmlinux.bin
diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index bfd7872739a3..2ac3a643f2eb 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.rodata.compressed)
 	}

-	/* bootloader code and data starts behind area of extracted kernel */
-	. = (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START);
+	/* bootloader code and data starts at least behind area of extracted kernel */
+	. = MAX(ABSOLUTE(.), (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START));

 	/* align on next page boundary */
 	. = ALIGN(4096);