diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index c95feab6ce7f0bacb9bbe165dc01b68ee46da285..413fd94b53012dacc6596d2e9b225c04a7dab97a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ start:
 		.word	_magic_sig	@ Magic numbers to help the loader
 		.word	_magic_start	@ absolute load/run zImage address
 		.word	_magic_end	@ zImage end address
+		.word	0x04030201	@ endianness flag
 
  THUMB(		.thumb			)
 1: