diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index d59688a4cd0c..2336a84d589c 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
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-refs/heads/master: 08b95a7adba71a342aa152a695e75607102f484f
+refs/heads/master: b8e8efaa86399c4424becd96402993cf230dab57
diff --git a/trunk/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fixmap.h b/trunk/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fixmap.h
index f1f4e23a84e9..5c2c0233175e 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/trunk/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
  */
 enum fixed_addresses {
 	FIX_HOLE,
+	/* reserve the top 128K for early debugging purposes */
+	FIX_EARLY_DEBUG_TOP = FIX_HOLE,
+	FIX_EARLY_DEBUG_BASE = FIX_EARLY_DEBUG_TOP+((128*1024)/PAGE_SIZE)-1,
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 	FIX_KMAP_BEGIN,	/* reserved pte's for temporary kernel mappings */
 	FIX_KMAP_END = FIX_KMAP_BEGIN+(KM_TYPE_NR*NR_CPUS)-1,