diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 143467168258..8a55821fc175 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: fc9e8b4e275b6882cb537154c8fc7cde3692eea0
+refs/heads/master: 57744ea95edd340d7140852ce86c743df2cd588c
diff --git a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index ae6b67ce54e7..2fef772edfc1 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ void __init setup_system(void)
 	 * setting up the hash table pointers. It also sets up some interrupt-mapping
 	 * related options that will be used by finish_device_tree()
 	 */
-	ppc_md.init_early();
+	if (ppc_md.init_early)
+		ppc_md.init_early();
 
  	/*
 	 * We can discover serial ports now since the above did setup the